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The Best Project Management Framework for Startups

The Startup Magazine

The product and business owner has the big picture vision, the Scrum Master helps make it a reality, and the development team is responsible for actually making those ideas a reality. Startups greatly benefit from the openness since it helps with prioritization, finding bottlenecks, and keeping the operational flow stable.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. I dont think so. Small batches reduce overhead.

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Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge: The Make or Break Difference

Up and Running

Meanwhile, Wendy’s poured marketing and operational resources to deliver on their “Hot and Juicy” promise and carved out a niche for customers who wanted fresh, larger burgers with customized condiments. However, you must assess the feasibility of actually delivering your visionary, flank-exposing innovation.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Ive written about it on our development blog at [link] October 6, 2008 3:34 PM Chris Hondl said.

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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. I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Expo SF (May.

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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 Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. What is customer development?