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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. Today, I want to talk about the reasons smaller batches are better.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

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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. Nice write-up.

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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. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Each day, the analytics team would share a report with them that had the details of how each test was doing.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

The team cant get permission from the business leaders to get "extra time" for fixing. Because there are no tests for new features (or operational alerts for the production code), the code that supports those new features could go bad at any moment. Second was not changing the requirements without full sign-off.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

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But it goes beyond that, including techniques for improving the economics of product development. Reinertsen weaves together ideas from lean manufacturing, maneuver warfare, queuing theory, and even the architecture of computer operating systems and the Internet. percent utilization in the precourse surveys. What will this do?