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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st

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Agile Vancouver : Lean Development for Lean Times On Tuesday April 21st, we are hosting an afternoon event on the application of Lean Principles to software development. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, I often cite a real example of a problem that has as its root cause a new employee who was not properly trained. I pick that example on purpose, for two reasons: 1) most of the companies I work with deal with this problem and yet 2) almost none of them have any kind of training program in place for new employees.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

And in some cases, they disregard the results of customer focus groups if they sense that the results are incongruous. Not everything has to follow lean startup and customer development principles, and I write that as a devoted practitioner of both. August 3, 2009 2:58 AM Phil Winkler said.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

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Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Its easier to believe in a glorious future when you have only zeroes, for everyone: founders, investors, and employees. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?