YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

If you keep up with the news on project management and business strategy, you’ve probably come across the buzzword “agile” more than a few times. But what does it mean to be agile and do agile as a business unit? But what does it mean to be agile and do agile as a business unit? Defining Agile.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

, How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup – A Field Guide ) Managing development resources ( Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development , Poor Software Developers – Pull the Plug Early , Symptoms of a Weak Development Team ), and Choosing technical frameworks ( Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for (..)

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Finding and Selecting a Technical Cofounder / Developers How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup Development Challenges Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early Symptoms of a Weak Development Team Technology Choices (..)

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

The world does not need a new business framework. seconds)" for business framework on Google today. But most of the frameworks available to us solve for divisional silos. Then there is Agile for engineering. Then there is Agile for engineering. Why build a framework? And really the list is too long.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. Have you looked through Things You May Have Forgot in Your MVP and provided answers to these? Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ? While You Are Building Your MVP Look for the following Symptoms of a Weak Development Team.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Agile Methodology.”. Modern frameworks and languages have many built in features for security, created on the assumption that every developer would take the time to look through the piles of documentation (or lack thereof). Is agile & secure development a mismatch? by Quan Heng Lim, Cyber-Operations Consultant at Horangi.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

The article describes Lean as the search for a repeatable and scalable business model – and business model design, customer development and agile engineering – as the way you implement it. Eric Ries, who took my first Customer Development class at Berkeley, had the insight that Customer Development should be paired with Agile Development.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

When building a SaaS platform around your customers’ needs, you must also make sure you create a framework that can adapt to meet future challenges. My experience with education technology opened my eyes to key strategies for implementing a SaaS platform that’s agile and scalable. Build for the future.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2024

The concept of “Thoughtfully Fit” is a framework designed to help individuals and teams enhance their performance and navigate challenges with greater agility. 04:12] Talk about how the framework helped navigate your personal life. [06:00] So break down your framework a little bit. And I think that's so true.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

Two prominent frameworks, Flutter and React Native, have emerged as popular choices for businesses seeking to develop cross-platform applications. This transformation encompasses leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence , cloud computing, data analytics, and mobile applications to enhance efficiency, agility, and innovation.

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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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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Mik Kersten’s new book, Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework [IT Revolution Press, November 2018], based on two decades of research, spanning almost every domain of software delivery. In my upcoming book, Project to Product I introduced the concept of the Flow Framework.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

But until now I haven’t been able to articulate a framework of why or had a concrete suggestion of what to replace them with. Business models allow agile and opportunistic founders to keep score of the Pivots in their search for a repeatable business model. They called back laughing and the invitation disappeared.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. In spite of its well-known advantages (flexibility, quick feedbacks, adaptability and better communication), we might be uncertain whether to use this framework or follow a traditional way for the development.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

The article describes Lean as the search for a repeatable and scalable business model – and business model design, customer development and agile engineering – as the way you implement it. Eric Ries, who took my first Customer Development class at Berkeley, had the insight that Customer Development should be paired with Agile Development.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Utilize tools and frameworks such as the Eisenhower Matrix to delineate urgency and importance. Just as successful startups are agile in their operations, so must you be agile in your approach to work-life balance. Prioritize Ruthlessly The cultivation of work-life balance in a startup begins with meticulous prioritization.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Strategic content gives the audiences the frameworks and processes they need to make the conceptual ideas reality, and helps them frame up the solution space (again, not your product or service but how to think about solutions). How Atlassian used the conceptual, strategic, and tactical frameworks . The strategic level.

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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.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.]

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The biggest trend in marketing in 2016 has been the idea of “agile marketing.” In a survey conducted by Workfront and Marketing Profs, roughly 30% of marketers are already using an agile methodology in their departments. In other words, make sure your team management is agile (in the more conventional sense) as well.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with people responsible for legal, support, contracting, policy, and finance. Newell ran the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline. At my last startup we eventually started using a process called "scrum," which is basically a framework for managing agile engineering projects. Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) If I were starting a corporate innovation program today, I’d use the Lean LaunchPad classes as the starting framework. Lessons Learned.

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Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 273

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. As we thought about how we could get students engaged, we realized the same Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class would provide a framework to do so.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

Scrum is a framework that is used by software development teams to address complex problems while delivering products of the highest value. Scrum is the most popular subset of the Agile methodology and is used by seventy percent of software teams around the world for project management. What is Scrum?

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But a newly minted developer given access to Hacker News can develop ADD in a week's time, waste countless hours reading the opinions of professional and amateur technology opinion-makers, and nervously fidget about selecting the hippest framework and libraries to (briefly) avoid the scorn of hacker pop culture.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. But it lacked a framework for testing all commercialization hypotheses outside of the building. With Agile you could end up satisfying every feature a customer asked for and still go out of business. Lessons Learned.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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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. At 65 mph, it''s like having a large animal sitting on your chest.

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Agile Development. A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms – OpenStack, AWS, Heroku, CloudFoundry! Johan proposes a framework that describes the various layers of cloud platform services starting from virtualized hardware up to end-user software applications. This is such a neat framework!

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Framework Cloud Software Review Azure 42

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, policy, finance, support. The company has adopted Lean language and process: curation, prioritization, three horizons, I-Corps – business/ mission model canvas, customer development and agile engineering.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2024

This framework helps in creating clear and attainable objectives. Agility: Foster a culture of agility where your team is encouraged to adapt quickly to changes. Vision Statement: Your vision statement should encapsulate your business’s long-term aspirations. This helps identify new opportunities and potential threats.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams. They should freely share learnings and don’t compete with each other, meaning they effectively act like small, independent start-ups within a larger framework. Being agile.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

This solution is a philosophy, and this philosophy is AGILE. Agile is a manifesto that has been put forth by a bunch of people and to implement it. It is a lightweight framework, easy to understand but difficult to master. Moreover, scrum and agile aren’t the same thing. We use SCRUM. Next is sprint planning.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

As companies strive to stay agile and innovative, they’ve discovered that units of 8 to 12 people work best as the natural size of high-performance teams. Not too long ago, German software giant SAP blew up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replaced it with “mini-teams” of roughly 10 people.

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