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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customerdevelopment Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.
The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See CustomerDevelopment Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the CustomerDevelopment process.
I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?
Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customerdevelopment , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customerdevelopment and agile development is a challenge.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. Having early customers means balancing the needs of your existing customers with the desire to find new ones.
It is so true, but non-tech managers usually try to ignore the facts away. I have never seen (or even heard of) a normal team in your average large organization ever learn to manage technical debt dynamically. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. Excellent article.
Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything.
By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon they got out of the building and headed to a local mall to begin the customer validation and development process.
Your company needs the strongest product team possible, and if you don’t develop your team and provide growth opportunities, there are other companies that will. I have always been a big believer in the old adage that “people join a company but leave a manager.” Is he fully utilizing his project manager/ScrumMaster?
Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customerdevelopment?
By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon they got out of the building and headed to a local mall to begin the customer validation and development process.
Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customerdevelopment for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customerdevelopment. So I have a question for you, Jason.
Thor Ernstsson is the founder of Alpha UX , a product validation company serving real-time user insights to Fortune 500 product managers. Customerdevelopment would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. Our model at Casual Corp.
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