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I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. Some of the best new companies of the past several years seem to stay lean until they figure out their product / market fit. Those of us that espouse “lean startups&# often do so from personal experience.
I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. I dont think so. Small batches reduce overhead.
It always goes like this: I'm just a two-person operation with no budget. What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? But we know that any code review tool from Microsoft would work only with their own version control system and only inside Visual Studio.
The product and business owner has the big picture vision, the Scrum Master helps make it a reality, and the developmentteam is responsible for actually making those ideas a reality. Startups greatly benefit from the openness since it helps with prioritization, finding bottlenecks, and keeping the operational flow stable.
You don't have an "edge" just because you're passionate, hard-working, or "lean.". During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product developmentteams. In the 90's, y'all, before that was built into all the operating systems!) Like what??
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or leandevelopment techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.
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. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said. Nice write-up. Expo SF (May.
The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product developmentteam, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product developmentteam is a service organization. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.
Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Expo SF (May.
I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. The team cant get permission from the business leaders to get "extra time" for fixing. First of all, its a myth that cutting corners saves time.
Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product developmentteam that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. What is customer development?
You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept.
Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. If establishing physical offices in a developing country, split them into at least two physical areas hundreds of miles apart from each other. Fortunately none of our employees lost their lives and the second office 300 miles away in Manila continued operating as normal.
Meanwhile, Wendy’s poured marketing and operational resources to deliver on their “Hot and Juicy” promise and carved out a niche for customers who wanted fresh, larger burgers with customized condiments. However, you must assess the feasibility of actually delivering your visionary, flank-exposing innovation.
Leading the architecture and technical direction of the product - This is closely related to leading the developmentteam, but it is really a different skill set. These are very much “soft skills&# , related to making other people successful, happy, and motivated.
net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson? net implementation.
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