ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Before we dive into the marketing applications, however, let’s briefly cover what scrum is and how it came to be. An Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development. Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.” sourced from the Scrum Guide. Basics of Scrum Framework.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Its by far the hardest part of the puzzle of shipping successful products and both recommend that you get a customer in the room and ask them to clarify what they want as you go. Labels: customer development , product development 8comments: Sarah Milstein said.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2020

Instead, we need to streamline and accelerate our processes by borrowing techniques from the world of lean and agile product development. But the traditional approach of spending many months conducting surveys to craft perfect, data-centric customer personas and buying journeys just isn’t going to cut it in these fast-changing times.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Successful collaboration between a company’s business development and product development requires mutual understanding and purpose. Workflow solutions can make a huge impact on the productivity of a team if the communication is well-facilitated. Matt Ehrlichman , Porch. Consider Using a Liaison. Adjust the Workflow.

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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. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. 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.

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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. But first I think we need to save the product manager from that special form of torture only a waterfall product development team can create. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said.

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SVPG

MARCH 17, 2011

Product Optimization Process (9) - These are the skills to rapidly improve and refine existing products especially with optimization techniques and A/B testing. Product Development Process (7) - Does the product owner have a deep understanding of the product development process (e.g.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

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

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Simple Agile Product Development. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Pa. Trying to Develop a Death Star or a Flux Capacitor. No Scrum Master? . ► 2011. (14). ► November. (1). Top Ten Attributes of Agile Platforms. ► October. (2). Achieving 2X in Speed To Market Using Agile Platfo.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

Speed of product development, of brand-building, of customer acquisition, of team-building and talent aggregation. Like Uber raising $8.7 billion over 7 years. Or Airbnb raising $2.3 billion over 8. Or Dropbox raising $607 million over 9. They keep raising money because money buys speed. Now, for how long will they continue to do it?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

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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. Product development leverage Validated learning about customers Built to learn Web 2.0 Excellent post.

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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. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Ideally, the economics of a development investment look like those of a cash investment; typically, a seed investor will get no more than about 20% of a company for his capital. Second, the company must eventually own the product development and maintenance functions in-house.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Everyone has to be a generalist and able to work on any kind of problem - specialists will be (at best) somewhat bored and (at worst) highly distracting because they want to steer product development into whatever realm they specialize in. Stage 2: The first hires. Don’t do that stuff.

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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.

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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

Great for visualizing work of product development. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Acunote â??

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