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The Boston Startup School , founded at TechStars Boston (see For TechStars Boston, Life Beyond the Pitch ), is creating a program that will give aspiring entrepreneurs and others all the tools they will need to work at a startup. It comes down to serving the needs of the growing ecosystem of the Boston tech community.
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!
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 Thoughts on scientific productdevelopment I enjoyed reading a post today from Laserlike (Mike Speiser), on Scientific productdevelopment. I agree with the less is more productdevelopment approach, but for a different reason. Now that is fun.
The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in productdevelopment. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.
Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Critical also, as the lean company/start-up can not be lean by just using lean principles in IT and not in ProductDevelopment/Management - a common misinterpretation of the Toyota Production System.
In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes productdevelopment in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Amazon PostRank
The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the ProductDevelopment Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted.
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. This post has been removed by the author. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank
Own the development methodology - in a traditional productdevelopment setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: productdevelopment 15comments: mukund said.
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. Thoughts on scientific productdevelopment Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?
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. Its really helped me articulate my thinking on this topic, and includes an entire chapter on the topic of reducing batch size.)
I’m Connor Cash, the founder of Caesar and I grew up outside of Boston but currently live in DC! One hour I’m deep into productdevelopment, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? And your least?
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. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank
I just got back to Boulder from an amazing week in Boston and I wanted to reflect on it while it is fresh in my mind. This year we had 220 alumni founders in Boston for the annual gathering, which culminated in a demo day with entrepreneurs from the Boston TechStars program. Here I am interviewing Fake Grimlock.
This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for productdevelopment. Labels: productdevelopment Speed up or slow down? This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for productdevelopment. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their productdevelopment leverage. The biggest source of waste in new productdevelopment is building something that nobody wants. Leverage productdevelopment with open source and third parties.
Customer development is a parallel process to productdevelopment, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. Our goal in productdevelopment is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. This is a common mistake. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank
Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software productdevelopment team. There are three stages: We start with ideas about what our product could be. Thoughts on scientific productdevelopment Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?
Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in productdevelopment. Eric Ries Lean Startup Schematic View Of Agile Development And Customer Development View more presentations from Eric Ries. Amazon PostRank
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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.
Two years ago Jeff Bussgang lamented about “Lost Generation” of entrepreneurs which I think is especially acute here in Boston. I was in my early 20’s just barely out of school when four of us (peers) started Sombasa Media (aka BargainDog ) here in Boston beginning in 1998. My own personal story fits in with this narrative.
The last time they were starting a company at the raw, pre-product/market fit stage may have been quite a few years ago. The context of starting business may have changed, and some of the tools and practices (especially around early productdevelopment and go-to-market) might look very different.
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Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. Silicon Valley, Boston). In the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s ). Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems.
Labels: five whys root cause analysis , productdevelopment 15comments: Anonymoussaid. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Amazon PostRank
None of it would have happened if we had plenty of cash, or were content to count our progress by traffic or productdevelopment milestones. Labels: productdevelopment 4comments: Doug said. Everything else, including anything that optimizes any other goal, is waste. Thank you Eric. March 2, 2009 1:58 PM programiTV said.
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Eric, Any thoughts on how forum feedback fits into customer development and agile productdevelopment? Youve probably addressed this in the past, but I continue to be blown away by how fast Blizzard reacts to noise in their forums and rapidly makes fixes to the product. . =) November 4, 2008 10:58 PM IMVU said.
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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!
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