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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. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully. Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail. XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Hes often felt that there was something missing. Enter Jims post.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

I have been thinking a lot about what a new version of this test would look like, given what Ive seen work and not work in startups. but I have not seen that dysfunction in any of the startups I advise, so hopefully its behind us. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Youd better.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. In a startup, we should take full advantage of our options, even if they feel dirty or riddled with technical debt. Startups are always moving, so invest in moving faster and better.

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This I Believe

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If you want to see evidence of this sort of dogmatic thinking going on right now, all you need to do is look at all the people out there that built their reputation on Scrum, and how resistant and defensive they are about so many teams now moving to Kanban. Or Six Sigma. I could go on.

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