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Eric Ries and Kent Beck Discuss Product Development

Startup Lessons Learned

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 San Francisco, where Kent will be a speaker.'

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

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 San Francisco and New York to a wide variety of places.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

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 San Francisco. 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.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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SXSW Startups: Boost Biomes

Austin Startup

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 San Francisco-based company. We trade off resources for agility, which I love, and the need to be resourceful.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

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, San Francisco, December 2012 If you want to read more, you can find an excerpt of Chapter 6, Viability Experiments here.

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