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It’s An Agile World

Feld Thoughts

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. We just had to go build it to prove our point.

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Stop Starting, Start Finishing with Agile

ReadWriteStart

At the same time, leaders are also looking towards acquiring that entrepreneur Agility. Thus, many have been fostering Agile thinking and mindset within their teams. The four Agile values, defined in the Agile Manifesto, deliver value to the customer, responsiveness to change, effective communication, and people centricity.

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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

Though agile is all about process and that’s where much of our attention has gone, it’s time we shifted out focus on people and interactions. In his new book “ People Over Process: Leadership for Agility “, technology expert Michael K. By putting people first — as opposed to process. Can you talk a bit about yourself?

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. I suggested to Radhika that we start by looking at the canvas box labeled “key activities”. How much value should I put on co-founders I’ve worked with before?” ” Lessons Learned.

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5 Keys To Starting New Trends Rather Than Following

Startup Professionals Musings

Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs. As a first step toward faster decisions and agility, practice applying the 80/20 Principle to your thinking. The rest does not often improve decision quality. Spend more time on long-term strategy than daily crises.

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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

While he correctly understood how to frame his hypotheses with a business model canvas, and he was doing a good job in customer development – the third component of Lean is using Agile Development to rapidly and iteratively build incrementally better versions of the product – in the form of minimal viable products (MVP’s).

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Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code

Steve Blank

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. No,” my friend replied, sadly shaking his head, “the rest of the board said it sounded like a good idea.”. Shooting Yourself in the Head.