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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. Sometime later, a guide would rattle off useful information, like the density of cars in the immediate vicinity, how that density compares to historical averages, the average mass and velocity of recent cars.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

For the rest of us, we need to get some facts to inform and qualify our hypotheses ("fancy word for guesses") about what kind of product customers will ultimately buy. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. Lots of good usable information. What is customer development?

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. By shipping software early, you give them continuous feedback about how it well its working. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. And projects dont have quality per se.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

He shows how the actions of people inside traditional systems are motivated by their rational assessment of their own economics. Reinertsen does not speak about startups specifically - his book is meant to speak broadly to product development teams across industries and sectors.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. As Shutterstock has grown, there are a few key elements to our continued development speed: Small, autonomous teams: The more a team can do on their own, the faster they can go.

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