Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams. The most advanced of these teams, by adhering to the build-measure-learn methodology, has managed to reduce so much waste from their process that they’ve actually become an internal version of a lean startup within the context of our larger organization.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

As soon as you have more than one product manager, or more than one interaction designer, teams face this question. Product managers and designers generally work with developers every day to get their product ideas built, and when the product organization is not aligned with the technology organization, the result is almost never pretty.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

” There is no law, other than the word of the manager on duty — who decrees that we could get in with the camera if we paid some ludicrous amount of money to procure a permit on the spot. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. why couldnt the engineer see the problem in their sandbox? Do you have a spec?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. Less is more. No more, no less.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

I’ve found the best way to do this is to manage the projects daily. Work directly with engineers, no company involved. I’ve been acting as project manager/dev manager. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only! They start by demoing their skills on my project at no cost for 1-2 days.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

“Industry Week” recently commented on how the impact of globalization on supply chain networks has made supply chain management increasingly complex. “A Understanding these costs will empower you to better manage all the vendors across your supply chain. 5 essentials of supply chain management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

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. Once an agreement is reached, the Chief Engineer continually watches to make sure that the functions are following through.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. This reverses the standard intuition about what engineering activities add value, which usually concludes that test coverage is a form of necessary waste but a refactoring is value-added work. It is so true, but non-tech managers usually try to ignore the facts away.

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Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

SVPG

MARCH 10, 2016

For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach. These people are there to help the broader team – especially engineers, QA, product managers and product designers – to learn the methods and mindset involved in moving to Agile.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. Product owners and technical managers also need to interpret this scenario properly.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). Our business is located in House District 44 (Mike May), and Senate District 30 (Ted Harvey) and most of our ~15 employees live in these same or surrounding Districts in the South Denver area. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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Software SQL Colorado Fractional CTO 48

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software. At my last startup we eventually started using a process called "scrum," which is basically a framework for managing agile engineering projects. Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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SVPG

JUNE 5, 2015

NOTE: This article is a narrative version of a talk I’ve given for developers at the Craft Conference and for product managers and designers at Mind The Product. Finally the requirements and design specs make it to engineers. Without knowing the actual solution, this is extremely hard for engineering to predict.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

No engineering team. But where it makes sense, that team may also include engineers building new experiments or prototypes to try with customers. And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. You need a problem team and a solution team."

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean Agile 132

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. Because one of the most important things for me is that it helps me to communicate with the other person that I manage my money with, who’s also spending out of those same accounts, my wife.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Jesper Richter-Reichhelm is Head of Engineering at social games company Wooga. Normally as a company grows this changes as management layers are added, and work simply becomes less efficient. This ensures a fast decision is always possible and the company can scale without top management becoming a bottleneck.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. Scrum recommends 30 days; I have worked in one or two-week cycles up to about three months.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Thor Ernstsson is the founder of Alpha UX , a product validation company serving real-time user insights to Fortune 500 product managers. When the value of the studio’s participation is effectively a commodity (like office space, engineering, capital, etc), the equation flips and should be to the advantage of the founders.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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. While simple, it is easy to manage. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Founders and early employees tend to be very self-directed so the need for management is nearly non-existent. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Routing - Manages everything necessary to get HTTP requests routed to user web processes.

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Developer Database Architecture API 92

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night. And I remember, we set up a war room that we managed, we met twice a day. And I remember listening to the district manager in New Orleans going, "This is." And what did we need?

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Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

By Alan Glazer, Senior Product Manager at Hostway Services, Inc. In addition to the obstacles illuminated by the study, senior systems engineer and technology author Karl Palachuk also noted several other issues with companies’ disaster recovery strategies, including: They may not have a DR plan in place at all. Other Challenges.

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Delaware SCRUM Cloud Technology 100

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Manage Your Workflow — Or Else.

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Management Product SCRUM Early Stage 126

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Part 4- Closing. Rand Fishkin. Start Spanish. Live Mocha.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. Especially the first section. Keep it small and affordable.

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