Remove Continuous Deployment Remove SCRUM Remove Software Developers
article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development. What causes projects like this to fail in traditional software development is that the solution is unknown.

Agile 111
article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

Lean 168
article thumbnail

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

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: Continuous deployment makes releases n.