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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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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

As one engineer recently told me, “Once we had money in the bank and were near-profitable, I think we would have been well-served by increased up-front product and technology planning. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. He’s right. Eric, great post.

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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Developing Strong Product Owners

SVPG

Technology Knowledge (8) - What is the level of knowledge of the underlying technology? How current is his technology knowledge? Process Skills: Customer Discovery Process (7) - Customer discovery includes customer interviewing skills, opportunity assessments and understanding of customer development programs.

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This I Believe

SVPG

I believe in technology. I love learning new technology. I love how technology constantly changes, and I love how what is now possible is constantly changing. This rapid and constant evolution in technology provides hope that we can continue to solve important problems for people and our world. I believe in giving back.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. So I have a question for you, Jason.

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