VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. Then there’s the war in the Ukraine, rising energy prices, inflation, climate change, pandemic and who knows what other curve balls will be thrown our way. Need for Speed, indeed.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. while proposing minimal viable solutions.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2024

Most primes still use Waterfall development with distinct planning, design, development, and testing phases rather than Agile (iterative and incremental development with daily software releases). In the 21st century, platforms/weapons are increasingly software with hardware added. Ask the pointy end of the organization (e.g

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

The speed, depth and breadth of these disruptive changes happen faster than the responsiveness and agility of our current acquisition systems and defense-industrial base. Even today, the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine rapidly delivers weapons. They rarely make permanent change at the DoD.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example, the best R&D teams for your needs might be based in the Ukraine, whereas the best designers may be in Germany. Support agile working practices. The fast-paced business world favors small, nimble teams that support agile decision-making.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Posted by: Neil | October 4, 2007 2:24 AM I am not sure if I am misreading this - but are you suggesting that a top down, water fall process works better then an agile /iterative development approach? Its often too complicated to expect much of an agile dev model with people thousands of miles away.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community are now facing their own disruption from ISIS.

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