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On November 14 (that’s this Thursday) at 1p PT, Eric Ries will speak with Kent Beck, a creator of Agile software development, about facilitating the work of engineers and product teams. For even deeper learning, register for The Lean Startup Conference , December 9 – 11 in SanFrancisco, where Kent will be a speaker.'
It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. The number of Lean Startup meetup groups has crossed 100, spreading out from traditional startup hubs like SanFrancisco and New York to a wide variety of places.
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. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t take these ideas seriously.
On December 11—for VIP and Gold pass holders only—we’re holding a day of hands-on workshops with top Lean Startup experts and private startup site visits around SanFrancisco. It can’t work if developers have the attitude that they’re done once their code works on their machine and it’s checked into version control.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of ProductDevelopment Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of ProductDevelopment Flow: Second Generation Lean ProductDevelopment by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.
The best microbial products are barely effective, and other organic products focus on freshness, not on the specific challenge of fungal rot. Jamie Bacher , CEO and co-founder, answered some questions about the SanFrancisco-based company. We trade off resources for agility, which I love, and the need to be resourceful.
Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. Eric Ries, SanFrancisco, December 2012 If you want to read more, you can find an excerpt of Chapter 6, Viability Experiments here.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their productdevelopment process. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.
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. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their productdevelopment leverage.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agiledevelopment with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.
This can help you spot trends more quickly and see search indicators you hadn’t considered before, allowing your brand to react with more agility and better adjust to your users’ needs. But if your company has its own social channels, you benefit from knowing exactly what is being said about your company at any point in time.
One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in productdevelopment is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 27, 2010 Good enough never is (or is it?) Expo SF (May.
The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a productdevelopment team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation.
Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall productdevelopment process. There are some good anecdotes about Chief Engineers in the Toyota ProductDevelopment Book. April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco. I really enjoyed this article, my first time reading any of your stuff.
If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Labels: productdevelopment 15comments: mukund said. Thoughts on scientific productdevelopment Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? But along the way, something strange happened.
Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. 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? April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco.
I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software productdevelopment team. Joel said it: "Top notch development teams dont torture their programmers."
But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Thoughts on scientific productdevelopment Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?
Labels: five whys root cause analysis , productdevelopment 15comments: Anonymoussaid. 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.
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. . April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.
This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agiledevelopment. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Expo SF (May.
This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that productdevelopment is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. . April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco. Expo SF (May.
Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of ProductDevelopment Flow. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , productdevelopment 11comments: Peter Severin said. Sounds very similar to agiledevelopment which is the way. April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco.
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? Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.
Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. But first I think we need to save the product manager from that special form of torture only a waterfall productdevelopment team can create. Labels: productdevelopment 8comments: Vincent van Wylick 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? April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.
I was delighted to be asked to give a brief talk about the MVP at the inaugural meetup of the lean startup circle here in SanFrancisco. First, a definition: the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.
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? April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.
Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agiledevelopment respectively. 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?
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. Expo SF (May.
Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their productdevelopment team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.
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? April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.
Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.
In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Expo SF (May.
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? Combining agiledevelopment with customer developm. April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco. Expo SF (May.
For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. As Im pontificating about agile, I see the name Kent Beck in my peripheral vision. Now, this webcast was packed, hundreds of people were logged in.
Sometimes we have the attitude that the ProductDevelopment team is the one responsible for Activation and Retention (hey, a great product would do that naturally) or that the Marketing team is responsible for Revenue and Referral (hey, go get me some money or free customers already). . April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco.
I had really debated about whether there was any value in spending the time and money to fly to SanFrancisco when there was a perfectly serviceable simulcast going on in Cleveland. All I can tell the folks who attended the simulcasts is that I’m not missing either the time or the money.
In fact, the curse of productdevelopment is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. When we’re optimizing, productdevelopment teams encounter similar situations. I mean, here we are, paying them to be there, and they won’t use the product!
That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. This development philosophy created a culture around rapid prototyping of features, followed by testing them against large numbers of actual customers. If it didnt, wed trash it.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Productdevelopment leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in productdevelopment. Its a key lean startup concept. Great post!
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? Combining agiledevelopment with customer developm. April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco. Expo SF (May.
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? April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.
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? . April 23, 2010 in SanFrancisco. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.
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