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Vision Pivots vs. Discovery Pivots

SVPG

from Java to Ruby), or a "pivot" of their development process (e.g. from Scrum to Kanban), or a "pivot" of a dedicated product team to work on something else (I guess this is supposed to make the team feel better about the new assignment, because pivots are something cool teams do). It is often used as a synonym for "change."

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

However, for those who werent able to get in (or are real gluttons for punishment), I will be speaking the night before at a free event hosted by The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb Meetup Group. April 21 - Agile Vancouver is sold-out (thank you all so much!). It will be a more-technical version of the Expo talk. You can register here.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Some startups, on reaching this stage, declare “we’ve got to grow up and act like a real company now” and immediately try to switch to heavy-handed tactics. Don’t do that stuff.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

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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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Ruby Toolbox. Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. s free, supports ruby, nodejs, static files, and a few other languages. Rails (Ruby). open source framework for Ruby. Ruby cloud platform.Rails deployment made easy. Banana Scrum â??

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

I am a Ruby on Rails programmer and have written the first line of code for a few startups. Wille (2010-06-20) # I would say that the "User Story" template format of writing requirements pushed by the Scrum Agile methodology is the way to go, as it chunks functionality in a common, easily overviewable format with a common language.