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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customerdevelopment? When we build products, we use a methodology. But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit."
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. And over time, the developmentteam may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.
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.
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 developmentteam made me want to cringe.
But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. For that reason, it’s important to go with methods, like Lean Startup, that have proven results for the kind of problem that team is trying to address.
By now, the board has a good sense of the skill set of the CEO and executive team as entrepreneurs. What makes the current evaluation hard is that is based not on an assessment of what they have done, but on a forecast of what they are capable of becoming. What’s Next. Some never make the transition from visionary autocrats to leaders.
Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customerdevelopment?
You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. So the productdevelopmentteam was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Each day, the analytics team would share a report with them that had the details of how each test was doing.
Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the productdevelopmentteam of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. Does this sound familiar?
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of ProductDevelopment Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of ProductDevelopment Flow: Second Generation Lean ProductDevelopment by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their productdevelopment process. May your team, one day soon, refactor with pride.
The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a productdevelopmentteam, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup productdevelopmentteam is a service organization. Labels: hiring , productdevelopment 5comments: TedHoward said.
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