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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. What is customer development?

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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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.