The Startup Magazine

JUNE 30, 2018

The Sprint meeting must be facilitated by the Scrum Master and clarifications about the product backlog items must be provided by a Product Owner. The Product Owner and Scrum Master must work together with the Agile Team towards achieving the sprint commitment. The length of the sprint will be defined by the agreement made by the team.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. To an extent, all of this is true.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In the very early days of any startup, the matters of company strategy , structure, culture and leadership are rarely formally addressed. The goal of this article is to look at this decision from a number of viewpoints and to try and guide startup founders towards a decision that will make the most sense for them. Hence, this article.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. What would a startup team look like based on this data only? Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Lagos, a Nigerian port city, is the home of more than 60 startups focused on solving social problems.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This means the holding of daily scrum meetings and the ability of all involved employees to talk about barriers and discuss status, as well as input from the product owner. appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Are your teams co-located? — Does your team have a willingness to learn from past failures?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully. Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail. XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Hes often felt that there was something missing. Enter Jims post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Lean Startups need to make snap decisions, iterate quickly and pivot when needed. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Systems such as Scrum can help separate departments communicate effectively, and that is an absolute necessity. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion Entrepreneurship startup YEC yec.co . - Maren Hogan , Red Branch Media. Adjust the Workflow. Daniel Wesley, Creditloan.com. Maintain a Mutual Understanding.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? – Over the fast dozen years, Rally has gone from a raw startup to a 500 person public company.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Agile Scrum daily meetings have become a commonplace solution for development teams to hit and exceed targets. One Teams app in particular can be a godsend to teams forced into adopting remote work as standard and still maintain a working scrum methodology. ScrumGenius.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

His nickname is Tank and I wouldn’t have minded having him as a teammate in my rugby playing days either, holding me up in the scrum! He’s the cofounder and former CTO of LivingSocial, and over the past few years has angel invested in companies such as Shyp, LendingHome, Walker & Co, and also sits on the board of a YC alumni ThinAir.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

For nearly every organization that has grown beyond a very early stage startup, one of the most common, yet difficult, questions is the optimal way to split up the product work. As soon as you have more than one product manager, or more than one interaction designer, teams face this question.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 5, 2014

For seed-stage startups, when resources are tight, trying to consciously build startup culture can feel wasteful. Below, Ben makes the case for why defining values is actually a worthwhile exercise, and he outlines his startup’s approach. Since we’re a startup, we definitely see more flow than ebb.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The company is part of a new wave of companies, such as Skillshare, Boston StartUp School and others, to provide "over the top" professional education to help chip away at the skills gap and enhance professional development. I had never tried a spontaneous scrum like this before and it was great fun. Intelligent.ly

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

Giza was just a one-day side trip on my main mission: Visiting a tech startup tucked away in Alexandria, a bustling seaside metropolis of 5 million. Building a startup is one of the riskiest endeavors to begin with, so predictability is key, even in the face of known adversity. What the heck was I doing in Egypt anyway?

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

My father eventually decided on Santa Clara (Saratoga, more specifically), and so I grew up in the shadows of the orchards of Cupertino and the nondescript concrete startup boxes of Santa Clara. Encyclopedic knowledge of term sheets and startup buzzwords can be quickly learned, trained, and packaged.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

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). I've heard teams refer to a "pivot" of their technology stack (e.g.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I have been thinking a lot about what a new version of this test would look like, given what Ive seen work and not work in startups. but I have not seen that dysfunction in any of the startups I advise, so hopefully its behind us. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 21, 2015

Running a startup requires flair and discipline. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Tom Nora Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development. I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore. web development projects.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. For most early-stage startups the list of product features that are under consideration for a 6 month (or even a 12 month) period is not that big. They couldn't plan their business.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

Unless you’re a small, agile startup, shipping new features isn’t as simple as it sounds. If you’ve never heard the term scrum or agile before, you’re behind. If you’ve never heard the term scrum or agile before, you’re behind. New features need to be written in user stories to fit the scrum framework. Know the process.

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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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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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. In a startup, we should take full advantage of our options, even if they feel dirty or riddled with technical debt. Startups are always moving, so invest in moving faster and better.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Startups and Enterprises. startup cto. (18). 10 Things Enterprise CIOs can learn from Startups. No Scrum Master? Social, Agile, and Transformation. social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Older Post.

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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. Discovery Coaches are not unlike Lean Startup Coaches. Because of this difference, many Lean Startup Coaches don’t actually have the necessary product experience.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2011

Your startup has real business traction. Your startup is generating a lot of awareness and buzz. You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). You can provide flexibility in terms of choosing which technology solutions, languages, tools they can use. See the Joel Test.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

Although you certainly can make the case for a single-person startup , it's so much easier to have a co-founder and we've covered in the past tips on finding a good one. At my last startup we eventually started using a process called "scrum," which is basically a framework for managing agile engineering projects.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I love working with people from around the world and truly believe that distributed teams provide huge benefits for small businesses and startups. Luckily, we have found a way to make sure no team member has to work unnatural hours for our daily scrums. Related posts: Small business and startup tips: training day!

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SVPG

JULY 31, 2013

If you want to see evidence of this sort of dogmatic thinking going on right now, all you need to do is look at all the people out there that built their reputation on Scrum, and how resistant and defensive they are about so many teams now moving to Kanban. Or Six Sigma. Or Six Sigma. I could go on.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

It is executed through practices of Kanban , Scrum, XP. Agile mindset is a system of beliefs characterized by a customer-centric approach, emphasizing communication and consistent collaboration with the customer and inside the team. What is Agile Thinking?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As a new startup, you’re likely well aware of how inventory costs money and how those costs can quickly add up the longer you go without orders. See Also: Estimating Realistic Startup Costs. See Also: How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen, and Scrum. These costs are even higher for manufacturers.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

My startup team has just gone distributed, after eight months of being remote. 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. It took a back seat until we realized “WTF, we are actually going to make this a startup!”

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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. And still being a startup means continuing to innovate as well as keep the lights on.

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