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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. 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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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

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. a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit." Theory of market types.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. Shutterstock is in a competitive market, but we have the most traffic and the most usage, meaning that we can run more tests (achieve significance sooner) and learn faster than our competitors.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Even if, in a previous life, you were a world expert in some functional specialty, like in-depth market research or scalable systems design, the compressed timeline of a startup makes it irrelevant. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization.