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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Instead, techniques like Five Whys teach us to view the entire application and product development team as one integrated system. Once we can see opportunities for truly global efficiency gains, all that remains is to ensure our team actually makes room for those investments. From this holistic viewpoint, we can optimize accordingly.

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Benhamou Global Ventures. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list.