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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. No more, no less. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

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Distributed teams can work across multiple countries in ways that make the most efficient use of human capital. English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop.

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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. I think the new question needs to be "does the team have a clear objective?" If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly.

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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. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development.

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The Surprising Ways a Distributed Team Can Help Your Company Succeed

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I love working with people from around the world and truly believe that distributed teams provide huge benefits for small businesses and startups. Even worse, some companies, like Yahoo, have rolled back their distributed teams. Business owners report that their biggest concern with distributed teams is lower levels of productivity.

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Behind Every Great Product

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If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. Kate is now a product leader at Shutterstock in New York City. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices. GOOGLE ADWORDS – Jane Manning.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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In such a case youll have the right to use it, but not to decompile or distribute it and probably youll pay a license amount for it. Recently I was accepted at The Agora gallery in New York. Being accepted in New York is only the beginning. You *can indeed* build products with distributed teams.