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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

We believed that we could teach entrepreneurship at Hawken to the 6th to the 8th graders, so the week after Christmas Break I taught a 35-hour, one-week course in our Middle School Insights Program. By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

We believed that we could teach entrepreneurship at Hawken to the 6th to the 8th graders, so the week after Christmas Break I taught a 35-hour, one-week course in our Middle School Insights Program. By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments.

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Developing Strong Product Owners

SVPG

Process Skills: Customer Discovery Process (7) - Customer discovery includes customer interviewing skills, opportunity assessments and understanding of customer development programs. Product Development Process (7) - Does the product owner have a deep understanding of the product development process (e.g.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development 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.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? When its receding, we rescope. Do you have a spec? I think the new question needs to be "does the team have a clear objective?"

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

The Extreme Programming folks call those "spikes", and generally don't check them in.) Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. Are the engineers in the customer development team allowed to push quick and dirty "prototypes" to production?