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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. 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

We did our best to keep the runtime of the tests short (10 minutes was our target), and we always treated a failing test as a serious event (generally, you couldnt check in at all if a test was failing). There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. Do you have a bug database?

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. FeedBurner FeedCount @ericries on Twitter @ericries on Twitter more updates.

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Startup Lessons Learned

At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. In the event there is an irreconcilable difference between Chief Engineer and function head, the issue can be elevated to a very high level, but apparently this doesn’t happen.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. July 30, 2009 1:29 PM jkorotney said. Things like "where is the design time?"

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Thank you all so much for making the event an overwhelming success (way beyond my wildest expectations) and a special thanks to all of you who have reached out to share your feedback, comments, and questions since then. Expo Upcoming Events If you missed the session at Web 2.0 Expo last week. Those are only symptoms. Expo, never fear.