Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

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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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Most startups are tiny which makes them perfectly suitable for the agile approach, even if we’re talking Scrum which (recommends) limits the number of team members to 9. Will you be hiring seasoned veterans or only young, hungry people? How Big Are You? And How Do You Plan to Grow? How quickly will this happen?

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2011

You've built up some kind of a relationship over time--because recruiting (as opposed to hiring ) is a long term game. You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). I can undoubtedly intro you today to 3-4 awesome teams hiring right now. You don't lowball, sending a signal that you don't value devs.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Use it to manage the hiring process, to keep track of investment and fundraising projects, to manage deals, and much more. Even at its simplest, it’s a great place to manage and make new connections, to find and hire employees, and to build a portfolio that showcases your skills, experience, and abilities. Don’t have a website or blog?

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

For example, in an area known for a high crime rate, security guards can be hired and other measures taken. English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 5, 2014

We started the process of building our company culture early, before we hired any employees, by writing down our desired values. Hiring: We look for people oriented towards (even obsessed with) learning and growth. We keep ourselves accountable to those goals through company progress dashboards, Scrum, etc. How can it not?

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore. Its like hiring a resource once you hire a great resource you never need to worry about it. Work directly with engineers, no company involved. Tom Nora.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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?

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 21, 2015

I’m only up to episode 5 of the first series (late convert) but already Erlich has saved the day with an off-the-cuff speech to a key investor about the company’s vision and Jared has implemented a scrum development process without which they would have missed a key deadline. Erlich and Jared don’t get along.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence. No more, no less. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. When it comes time to grow your team, Jeff Jordan and Eric pointed out three hiring mistakes to avoid.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. (Eventually, they may abolish specs altogether) Theres much more this team can do to eliminate waste in the way that they work and thereby iterate faster.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

They set goals like “growing 5% next year” or “hiring a new salesperson” or “redesigning the email newsletter.” When it comes to how that "Collection of Humans" that make up how a modern business is organized, long gone and never to return are the days of all a companies' people being W-2 employees working under a common roof.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Distributed teams allow companies to hire better employees. Hire the best talent, regardless of where it is.” Luckily, we have found a way to make sure no team member has to work unnatural hours for our daily scrums. There is however, much more. By keeping track of the different time zones, we are able to find a good balance.

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SVPG

JULY 31, 2013

The surprising thing is that the accomplishments I feel proudest of today are not the actual products I helped create, but rather, the many people across our industry I have helped to hire and develop. I love seeing them creating exceptional products, and leading great organizations of their own. I believe in continuous improvement.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

These categories came from Yonder conference , a conference held to discuss just such challenges and solutions: hiring and onboarding. Hire those you trust. Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. legal issues.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Scrum. Forbes: Scrum is a Major Management Discovery . Scrum is more of a process, an application of process. You do Scrum every week.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. " And, as I tried to outline in the article, process improvements that reduce overall batch size might be a better choice. July 30, 2009 1:29 PM jkorotney said. Things like "where is the design time?"

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

For starters, theres whole volumes that need to be written about how to actually find and hire the people your startup needs. But most startups succeed in hiring, one way or another, and are still left with the problems of organizing the people that rapid growth brings in. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

So hiring the right people is the single most important thing we do at Wooga. We believe in the mantra, “If in doubt, don’t hire.” It’s a 15-minute meeting where new hires get a warm welcome, company strategy is presented and announcements like game releases are made. This is only possible by having great people.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The reality however is that entrepreneurs should only play the equity game with newer, very focused firms that specialize in this practice and not traditional work for hire or a blend. Help identify key technologist and product hires to transition in-house (week 13 onward, however this can take 1 year).

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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 you think about how hard it is to hire a normal employee in any business. You'll be able to use that on the other side with everybody you hire going forward. Doesn't touch a single piece of paper?

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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. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

I have been using various forms of Agile development -- mainly XP and Scrum -- for many years, but only recently came across "customer development" which makes a whole lot of sense to me. Inspired me to expand on the "whiteboard iteration" idea with some similar lessons that ive learned. link] April 11, 2009 10:24 PM Daniel Prager said.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Stage 2: The first hires. Once you’ve gotten a little funding and been able to hire a few more developers, for a total of 5 - 9, you may find that the ad-hoc method of coordination (expecting to overhear everything of importance by sitting near teammates) starts to break down. Don’t do that stuff.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Do this by creating Scrum-style squads with individual contributors from each department working together on specified accounts. This email demonstrates that the sender has thoroughly researched their prospect, using publicly available information to open a conversation, such as the prospect’s recent hires.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Discrimination on race when you’re hiring is bad, discriminating on price based upon behavior of customers is very appropriate. Which is similar, it has less of a SCRUM-my feel to it. There are all these dimensions that you could split them up on. You can simply discriminate. It’s called price discrimination.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. find/hire freelancers. hire low-cost international engineering talent. VWorker -Â find/hire freelancers. Nice and leanâ?? and free online Kanban tool. Kanban Tool â??

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