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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. No more, no less. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. When its receding, we rescope. Do you have a spec? Do you do hallway usability testing?

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. They can call a meeting with all the stakeholders in the room and then just let them fight it out – this is design by committee and it rarely yields anything beyond mediocrity.

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. And wait until you see a "non-technical" designer writing simple code to try and speed up a release.

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7 Account-Based Marketing Examples and Lessons

ConversionXL

They also use multi-channel content distribution to improve brand awareness and meet prospects where they already are. Ads strategically placed on relevant websites or platforms that are designed to look like organic content. Follow GumGum’s lead when it comes to designing personalized content. Native ads. Social ads.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. In programming, when a class or sourcefile gets to big, the solution is to break it down into smaller pieces. Design adapted from Replenish. Don’t do that stuff. You need to break into targeted teams.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Ive always wondered how to go about outsourcing programming, as whilst I understand and have done programming successfully in the past - I absolutely hate it! 2010-06-19) # What about design mockups using eg. Another way to do it is to teach yourself programming and build it yourself. mockingbird? Bless you, chile!