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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Eric Ries Lean Startup Schematic View Of Agile Development And Customer Development View more presentations from Eric Ries.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Less is more.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability.

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Startup Lessons Learned

Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Real life seldom presents such comparable choices. To do that, we add specific speed regulators, like integrating source control with our continuous integration server or the more elaborate dance required for continuous deployment. It is so true, but non-tech managers usually try to ignore the facts away.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Metrics are people too" is a reminder I constantly needed when I was a manager. Well be discussing in greater detail the three techniques I highlighted at the Expo: continuous deployment, split-testing, and five whys. I am very glad the presentation went well and Im sorry I missed it. The slides look great.