Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use. It was humbling.

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ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2020

Each spring, the annual State of Agile Marketing Report sheds light on how Agile ways of working are being adopted within marketing. This year, for the first time in the report’s three-year history, Agile techniques overtook those maintaining traditional processes. But Agile is about more than just speed.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. Read Document Your MVP for a Developer for all of the detail that you really need to provide. I just want the cost, timeline and impact. But my developers want to go into way too much detail.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Some specific defense related AI applications are listed later in this document. Classic computers are designed to do anything a human explicitly tells them to do. The CPUs (Central Processing Units) that write and run these Classic Computer applications all have the same basic design (architecture). design, etc.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

A business plan is the execution document that large companies write when planning product-line extensions where customer, market and product features are known. Business models allow agile and opportunistic founders to keep score of the Pivots in their search for a repeatable business model. Business Plan Versus Business Models.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Whether you’re a startup or a multinational corporation, the need for agile and streamlined workflows is universal. Organizing digital files intuitively and accessiblely can dramatically reduce the time spent searching for documents. The journey toward operational efficiency takes time to happen.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Things like coding, finance; design and marketing are second-nature in startup as opposed to segmented, corporate work. Due to a small work environment, there is very little paperwork involved in startups, especially in agile development. Adopt an Agile Work Environment. Less Bureaucracy. Streamline Your Project Pipeline.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. We''ve had to design and implement training programs to help on-board people to our culture and technology.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2016

A case management system (CMS) is a platform for deploying and designing solutions that assist people attain the right content, and apply analytics for faster and accurate decisions to ensure the business has a better outcome. After the initial requirements are set, the team produces a requirement specification document.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Playground designers intend for you to slide down the slide, but, of course, children always want to climb up the slide. We might have medium-term goals like “adopting agile methodologies” or “getting everyone on the same page with a project kick-off” as the outcomes for the reader. What’s the right way to play on a playground?

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Founders assumed they understood customer problems/needs, wrote engineering requirements documents, designed the product, implemented /built the hardware/software, verified that it worked by testing it, and then introduced the product to customers in a formal coming out called first customer ship. Testing Hypotheses. Lessons Learned.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

These can be research tasks, like finding every tech blogger who blogs about cats, repetitive tasks like creating 100 affiliate links for products in a Word document, or ongoing tasks like monitoring a handful of job boards and posting new jobs to your website. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. Iteration vs. Automation.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Germany’s Mense-Korte Architects designed the office building extension. This highly advanced printing provides more design freedom than classic concrete construction, including rounded shapes. . “We The 3DCP (3D concrete process) involves a printhead supported by an agile massive frame structure.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Furthermore, they are less agile and have longer product cycles that require more documentation and usage assumptions, which still requires an in-house tech to properly manage. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Profiles and Interviews Roundups startup theyec.org YEC Young Entrepreneur Council'

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Each five whys email is a teaching document. Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Now, everyone is learning together - about your product, process, and team. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

If you’re working on important documents and don’t want to get spelling wrong (especially if you’re working in the cloud), this handy extension is for you. This is especially useful if you’re working through a dense document. It’s simple, colorful, adaptive and therefore—in today’s flat design, utility driven world—sexy!

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

Access to a team with skills that include scientific experimentation, UX, copywriting , consumer psychology , statistics , data analysis, coding, research methodologies, change management, and design. Can you share our company policy documents? waterfall, agile , etc.)? waterfall, agile, etc.)? Fresh-eyes review.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Intuitive design and easy navigation enhance user experience, reducing the learning curve for both lenders and borrowers. Look for features such as automated document verification, real-time data validation, and instant credit scoring. A robust platform automates this process, minimizing manual intervention.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2021

Good software is fast, efficient, reliable, and designed in a way that makes it intuitive. Technology evolves rapidly, and you need to be in an agile enough position that you can update your systems on the fly in response to new trends and new available devices and programs. Documentation. Potential for change.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

The agile software movement has made numerous contributions: continuous integration, which helps accelerate feedback about defects; story cards and kanban that reduce batch size; a daily stand-up that increases tempo. Besides training, how does documentation/Help keep up? June 18, 2009 1:05 AM Anonymoussaid. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

But according to the theory, this should have been covered by the various specs and documentation we were rigorous about producing. The artists on the team had called in the big guns, and VP-level folks were there to explain the importance of certain aspects of the visual design that threatened to be cut. The meeting was tense.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

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? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

How about documentation that nobody reads? Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. . 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?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

At the end of last year, a document was published that described how Spotify works using a decentralized approach of tribes and squads. I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams. Being agile. Here he gives an insight into the firm’s internal organization.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. They don’t love documentation. They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. Examples: - every time you release new features you need to update your technical documentation. -

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

By making use of collaboration platforms like Box—a cloud-based service that allows you to store and edit your documents, granting permissions to those who can do the same — your team will be able to securely access the documents they need to be successful from any device, no matter where they find themselves. to be productive.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

Keep the team small, agile and up-to-date. The backbone of your technology company revolves around a well-organized, up-to-date, specific and documented vision, brand-key, business plan, intellectual property rights, contracts, financial administration, NDAs and bylaws it can rely on. KPI’s are different for each start-up.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

Not automating this process creates the ongoing repetitive work that computers are designed to handle. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. But the number one question you need to think about when going after this Agile Business approach: At what point is it worth spending the time to truly automate this?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Some designers also hate optimizing (which is why the “41 shades of blue&# test is so famous – a famous designer claims to have quit over it ). After you’ve spent months on a painstaking new design, who wants to be told what color blue to use? It takes some getting used to for most designers, though.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

In fact, every single lean transformation documented in books like Lean Thinking took place in the midst of serious external threats. Combining agile development with customer developm. Even if it helps optimize one stage, if it slows you down somewhere else, it might not be a net win. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Kent, a veteran programmer, a founder of the Agile method and the creator of Extreme Programming, came armed with anecdotes and lessons from his own experience, as well as a few questions for Eric. So I get to see this hothouse of software design. As a reflex, I always think that. Would that really be a disaster?’

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SVPG

JUNE 13, 2014

I was also a reviewer of the book and it is definitely a must-read for any product person and fills a very big gap in the current library of Agile titles. Good teams have product, design and engineering sit side-by-side, and embrace the give and take between the functionality, the user experience and the enabling technology.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

The IT process automation should be the primary step in IT operations management, organizational designs, investments and supports. Effective understanding of how to design, develop, test, deploy and administer a workflow should be provided. The ability to develop and design scripts for data collection and integration is necessary.

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