YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Agile Methodology.”. The trend today is for teams and projects to be flexible, adaptable, continuously reassessed and developed to ensure that products and/or companies fit market demand. In the chase to produce the best minimum viable product or to push out the next killer feature, security is often given the backseat.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In fact, a recent survey showed that 80% of responding companies said they were using Agile practices in one way or another. By adopting the Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, you can keep your business operating as efficiently and effectively as possible long term. How We Can Help You to Master the Scaled Agile Framework.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. It was whatever you can do to get away from the classic DOD stovepipe way of doing business to a much more agile software approach. Minimal Viable Products. Lean, MVPs and the DOD.

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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. I’ve had the extremely good fortune to be able to work with many of the very best technology product teams in the world. Engineers exasperated with their product owners.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Adaptability and Flexibility is Pivotal Embracing change as an opportunity rather than a threat, pivoting strategies during downturns, and staying agile in a dynamic market are essential traits for surviving in a constantly evolving business landscape.

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SVPG

JUNE 5, 2015

NOTE: This article is a narrative version of a talk I’ve given for developers at the Craft Conference and for product managers and designers at Mind The Product. In this article I’d like to discuss the root causes of so many product failures. This is usually where Agile finally enters the picture.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Modern businesses rely heavily on this positive cyclical and iterative disruption to be competitive in the marketplace and innovate, delivering new services and products to their customers faster than ever. Hyperconverged Infrastructure.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

And from there, you can achieve a modest rate of growth as long as you keep providing quality products and services. . You may have a great product and a happy customer base, but what does that matter if nobody knows you exist? . You start with a great product or service and make sure your customers are getting what they need.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

And when he’d get a positive response he’d show them his first minimal viable product – the mockup he had created of the User Interface in PowerPoint. But I’m having a hard time getting to my next minimal viable product. While I have all this great feedback on my visual mockups I can’t iterate my product.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

3) It all starts with the product: Companies can overcome a great many challenges with band-aids, duct tape, and bailing wire. but one aspect of a startup and/or growth stage company that cannot be glossed over is the product. It all starts with the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

It is what separates successful entrepreneurs from the rest. You could have the best product on the market, but if no one knows about it, then no one will buy it. If your startup’s name is too technical or complicated, people might not understand it, which may make them less likely to use your service or buy your product.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how bootstrapping makes you a better business – a leaner, smarter, more agile company that can roll with the punches. You’re lean, agile, and responsive to external changes, ready to test a new idea or head in a new direction. Secondly, just how badly do you need that funding? Don’t answer just yet.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Incumbents: The AI Battleground The rapid development of AI agents is creating a fierce competition between agile startups and established tech giants. When it comes to Generative AI, the incumbents are not resting on their laurels. I.e. Copilots for coding, marketing, customer support, etc.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While most of the early attention in a startup is paid to finding product market fit ( the match between value proposition and customer segment on the right-side of the canvas) it’s the left side of the canvas that will tell you what your founding team should look like. ” Lessons Learned.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Value Propositions and Customer Segments are covered in weeks 1 and 2, emphasizing the search for problem/solution and then product/market fit.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Before product-market fit… just care about speed of iteration according to your customer feedback. So in terms of hiring, get people that can help you build the product faster… anything that minimizes the time between observing a need or a problem, and the execution or the fix for it.” Team, product, market. subtract $250,000.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the years, I’ve written a lot about the Agile methodology on this blog. For those of you who are regular readers, you may remember a post I wrote about our Agile Everywhere initiative — where all Return Path teams were tasked with implementing agile practices. The rest of the organization (a few hundred people!)

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. Re-architect and re-write” the product. He told the board that the only way to to deliver these changes is to re-write our product.&#

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. This methodology forces rapid hypothesis testing and Customer Development by getting out of the building while building the product. After returning to their schools, they got out of their labs while they built their products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you get angry or upset, and adopt a victim’s mindset, your little cloud of gloom will spread like a major depression across the rest of the office. In the business sense, adaptability means being open to new product innovations and marketing concepts, and agile when conditions abruptly change.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

The Importance of Lifelong Learning for Retail Success Retail isn’t just about selling products—it’s about understanding customers, adapting to change, and leveraging the latest tools to deliver exceptional service. Lifelong learning fosters agility, helping retailers quickly adjust to market shifts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2023

By demonstrating positivity and mentoring, you can make collaboration and connecting with others a productive and enjoyable experience, rather than a burden. It leads to better team member retention and will ultimately give you a competitive advantage, more productivity, and fewer customer crises. Face the worst and don’t panic.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Online product sales. While the trigger may be different, it is likely that businesses and society will experience additional impacts that increase the need for creating agility in the ability to execute while maintaining rigidity in organizational focus. Integration of personal life and work life. Digital learning and development.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By 1923, 2/3rds of the courses at Harvard were taught with the case method, and the pattern was set for business education for the rest of the 20th century. Founders of startups (and new ventures inside existing companies) are searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. experiential.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. To build products that people want and will really use, founders first need to validate the problem/need, then understand whether their solution solves that problem (i.e. finding product/market fit).

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

Most of the rest of the post is going to focus more on finding development rather than design firms. And you will want to make sure you see what the particular designers have done, samples of their work product, their process, etc. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. A dedicated User Experience (UX) designer is assigned to this team.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2018

These fears have been gradually laid to rest over the years with breakthroughs in cloud based systems as well as an increasing number of businesses in the healthcare sector who are satisfied with the quality of current cloud services. Production industry. Hospitality industry.

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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. The rest are providing central services like marketing, customer care and localization (20%) or others like HR, PR, Finance, Business Analytics and teams that maintain simple services for persistence of games.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The evidence is clear that companies that help people in need, and the environment, are paid back in revenue by the rest of us. Practice your agility. Repurpose product and services for emergent needs. I will paraphrase his guidance here, combined with my own experience: Elevate health and wellness of people and planet first.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

From the feedback that I have received, I have gathered that my employees are happier and more productive while working from home. Despite being how basic it is, it’s still amazing how great health can boost one’s productivity. To be as productive as possible, we know that keeping things simple can go a long way.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

And ideally, by the time I code it up, we’ll have many customers using the platform which means I’ll be working on a product I know is viable, and that’s paying for the time I’m spending to automate it. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

SLLCONF featured incredible entrepreneurs on stage to put those ideas to rest (watch, for example: Aardvark , Grockit , Dropbox , PBworks ). 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.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

When we demand overwhelming customer outcry before committing to the slightest product change, we're in danger of losing the value of creating a cool feature that takes too much effort but people just love. Still, every article I read turns the creative process of business and product design into Vulcanian objectivity.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

But, an illness takes the velocity of the product or quality of support from heroic to zero. So, no project can have fewer than, say, three people dedicated to it, plus people management and possibly some form of Product or Project Management. If Google launches a new product that generates $10,000,000/year in revenue, is that good?

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