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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

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XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Notice that the unit of progress changes as we move from waterfall to agile to the lean startup. Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

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Plus, as product development teams in lean startups become adept at learning-and-discovery (as opposed to just executing to spec), its clear that some bugs shouldnt be fixed. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. Joels Painless Bug Tracking is still the gold standard.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

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Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. The lean startup focuses on situations where we have both an unknown problem and an unknown solution. The Lean Startup at Web 2.0

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

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And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. I'm a big fan of Professor Bob Sutton, who wrote the book Scaling Excellence , and he's- Eric Ries : Amen to that. It's one of the books that I cherish.

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Episode 13: How to Solve Problems in Your Business, Human Resources, and #Zappos | The Bcast

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In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. Send us an email: Bcast@Bplans.com. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Scrum. Forbes: Scrum is a Major Management Discovery . Scrum is more of a process, an application of process.

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