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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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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

So far, this is all an academic exercise in naming - but I think it has an important real-world effect. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. Imagine the architect of a cathedral trying to make sense of this distinction. They'd think we were crazy.

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Simply put, we upload all the tasks and assign a name to each task. 1 comments: Josh Moore said.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

44:25) Parallels between the pandemic and previous crises, and Carl's thoughts on some of the new norms that will arise. (45:28) And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. After releasing the MVP, we work on a lean scrum to iterate based on early data/feedback until we start to see signs of product-market fit. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. Kate is now a product leader at Shutterstock in New York City. In this model, the product manager is really a backlog administrator. GOOGLE ADWORDS – Jane Manning.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

For example: “A company creates an account, then creates a new project with a title and description. Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. The link to a bold idea - Buycott BP, [the link is my name takes a couple clicks cuz this comment was flagged as spam] - has what I believe are 1.0