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XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. What’s worse is that as you grow you’ve probably developed some pretty bad habits as far as setting priorities and strategy: like thinking you’re a genius - just because you got funded - and that genius is what allows you to *know* what the market wants.
My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. No more, no less.
But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuousdeployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuousdeployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Can you make a build in one step?
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. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
blader : @ericries my #1 takeaway from #leanstartup : "No marketing team. So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. Well be discussing in greater detail the three techniques I highlighted at the Expo: continuousdeployment, split-testing, and five whys.
Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline. This was a huge win (and we were delighted to give credit where it was due), because it allowed our initial products to get to market much faster. One last thought.
When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica.
Quite a few teams now are taking this principle to its logical conclusion and releasing continuously (known as continuousdeployment). Even short of moving to Kanban, I have found many Scrum teams that have adapted Scrum in a Kanban direction for exactly this reason.
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