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6 Questions To Ask Before Launching a New Feature

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I have already released the feature to a small, select group of beta customers or my customer advisory board, and I am meeting with them to discuss their feedback. An Agile Alternative: Embedded Design A Depressing Example of Non-Agile Design Why Your Customer Feedback is Useless Seven More Ways People Suck at Customer Developmen.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board.

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Embrace technical debt

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I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

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Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Pivot, don't jump to a new vision Why Continuous Deployment? Expo SF (May.

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The curse of prevention

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In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. If we’re practicing continuous deployment, we can be confident that we’ll be able to rush an emergency fix into production without risking introducing further problems. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

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He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Expo SF (May.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

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Establish a customer advisory board. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.