Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.
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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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?
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. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?
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. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
It is so true, but non-tech managers usually try to ignore the facts away. I have never seen (or even heard of) a normal team in your average large organization ever learn to manage technical debt dynamically. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. Excellent article.
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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