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Continuous DeploymentCustomerDevelopment Team Review
Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuousdeployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their developmentteam. Give the devteam your very first sketches and let them get started.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customerdevelopment? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.
He shows how the actions of people inside traditional systems are motivated by their rational assessment of their own economics. Reinertsen does not speak about startups specifically - his book is meant to speak broadly to product developmentteams across industries and sectors. Wow, great review!
I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their developmentteam made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said.
Palantir is a deep technical play and we had a lot of code to write just to fill out the product vision that we had already validated with potential customers; it took us two straight years of development to go from early prototypes to software that could be used in production. It wasn’t always this way.
The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product developmentteam, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product developmentteam is a service organization. Were there to serve customers direclty, as well as all of the other functions of the company.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. Talking to potential customers and competitors customers.
He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers. Hes working harder than ever, and so is his team. But they are pushing for the things that matter to customers - features. So they insist on having the final say on when a feature is "done" enough to show to customers. Thats a bug.
You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. Because of the extreme unknowns inherent in startup situations, we are all blind – to the realities of what customers what, market dynamics, and competitive threats. Imagine you are crossing the street.
At the end of the day, the product developmentteam of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. It exists to serve the needs of customers, and it does this by offering its capabilities to other functions in the company, and partnering with them. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product developmentteam puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. So we tried to craft a strategy that would give us the product development leverage we needed to serve all customers.
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