ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. An Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development. Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.”

SCRUM 112

SCRUM Agile Marketing Development Team Review 112

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. Marketers can use this framework to evaluate the risks associated with different growth strategies. Market development involves taking existing products into new markets.

Marketing 115

Marketing Framework Metrics Channel 115

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

To succeed in today’s crowded market, you need to harmonize product marketing and brand marketing. In this article, you’ll learn the difference between brand marketing and product marketing, and how to balance both to stand out above the crowd. Brand vs product marketing: Friends or foe? They rely on each other for success.

Marketing 110

Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2013

While marketers go gaga over social technologies and their impact on digital commerce, it is often our physical perceptions of a product which influence buying decisions. The challenge, however, is this: How can we design our products, advertisements and experiences such that they push the right sensory buttons in our consumers?

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Customer Michigan Framework 159

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. Before I wrote my first book I spent a few weeks at a University of Michigan seminar on lean product development.

Agile 113

Agile Leadership SCRUM Lean 113

ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

It slows product development. For web-based products, user research can deliver quantitative measurement of on-site user behavior and qualitative insights from open-ended surveys and user recordings. The ResearchXL framework uses quantitative and qualitative user research to inform CRO strategies. It costs money.

Design 111

Design Framework Product Development Technical Review 111

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. Waterfall Development. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document. Here’s how. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

Lean 120

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? Still, a product is nothing without scalability. You can’t just build a product today, you need to build a venture. million to develop.”.

Cost 168

Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Without producing physical goods, every entrepreneur now can succeed in selling other manufacturers’ products online. Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? And keep in mind that the best option is to develop at least 5 domain names connected to your brand’s name to find an unoccupied domain.

eCommerce 113

eCommerce Software Development Software Developers Hosting 113

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? When we build products, we use a methodology. We know some products succeed and others fail, but the reasons are complex and the unpredictable. a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit." Whats wrong with this picture?

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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Eric has talked often about recognizing a startup as an organization designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). in ten years?

Lean 165

Lean Technical Review Startup Software Review 165

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. Were startups failing because of product failures or was there some other failure mode? Reply Best books for the lean product managers — Justin Gibbs , on April 28, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said: [.] What was the difference here?

Product Development 163

Product Development Developer Silicon Valley Product 163

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months. What’s going on?

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

This is the magic number for leadership teams, product teams, research teams, design teams, and more. Not too long ago, German software giant SAP blew up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replaced it with “mini-teams” of roughly 10 people. The principle works in business, too.

Agile 196

Agile Leadership Architecture Product Development 196

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Palantir is a deep technical play and we had a lot of code to write just to fill out the product vision that we had already validated with potential customers; it took us two straight years of development to go from early prototypes to software that could be used in production. So what was going on?

Lean 167

Lean Startup Software Engineering Agile 167

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2024

This framework helps in creating clear and attainable objectives. Examples of Goals Increase Market Share: By expanding your product line, aim to capture 10% more of the market within two years. Customer Satisfaction: Improve customer satisfaction scores by 15% in the next year through enhanced support and product improvements.

Technical Review 146

Technical Review Agile Audience Employee 146

The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

Scrum is a framework that is used by software development teams to address complex problems while delivering products of the highest value. There are three important roles in product development, which are product owner, scrum master and Scrum development team. Partnership with the product owner.

SCRUM 89

SCRUM Agile Software Developers Software Development 89

View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. Today sustainability and ESG are still very nascent within companies, with regulatory bodies and frameworks still being set in stone. CC: Being a founder is a rollercoaster ride. .

DC 156

DC Software Review Government Boston 156

ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

We’ll cover why a unique selling proposition is important, how to uncover what your customers are hungry for and share a framework for developing and testing a proposition that makes an impact on your business. how your product helps solve a problem), but it’s key to go beyond surface insights. The basics are important (e.g.,

Software Review 158

Software Review Audience Differentiation Framework 158

SVPG

MARCH 17, 2011

In my last article I discussed the role of the leader of the product organization. I want every product leader to feel considerable urgency and importance around this need. ” This note discusses the technique that I use and advocate for providing a framework for ongoing skills assessment and development.

Developer 67

Developer Product Technical Review SCRUM 67

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Besides the general focus on customer and product development, an entrepreneur should foresee the next moves that will serve to guide him on the right path. 1- Having a brand, service, and product built on integrity. We call this plan our ‘Alignment Framework,’ and it guides our overall growth strategy.

Forecast 133

Forecast Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review 133

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle. Startup founders counting the days until break-even or actively seeking outside capital must focus on streamlining their development cycles. Focus on Your Minimum Viable Product. Stay Lean and Low.

Cost 100

Cost Developer Small Business Administration Marketing 100

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

One of the topics that raised heated debate was whether I had conflated technical design with product design , because I made the admittedly counter-intuitive claim that sometimes good technical design actually leads to increased technical debt. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Jonathan Irwin will lead a workshop on advanced interview skills , including the different kinds of customer interviews, how to develop questions, and how to apply the answers to an actual decision around a product. By the end of his workshop, you will know how to apply innovation accounting to truly track the progress of your product.

Continuous Deployment 162

Continuous Deployment Norway Lean Analytics 162

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

As its official website suggests, it is a better way of building products. It is a lightweight framework, easy to understand but difficult to master. The first and foremost shelf of the scrum framework is the product backlog. As a product developer, there won’t be a day where the company doesn’t face any issue.

SCRUM 113

SCRUM Software Review Hiring Agile 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. One of those is an over-emphasis on split-testing.

San Francisco 128

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile 128

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Customer Development will help you – force you – to make better decisions based on tested hypotheses, rather than untested assumptions. In fact, they probably will.

Customer Development 166

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 21, 2014

Frameworks like CPS are essential. CPS is a time-tested framework. FEI process training is about how to conduct and orchestrate a series of activities that happen before the classic stage-gate/pipeline of new product development. Power tools like applied improvisation games can help you run faster.

Framework 96

Framework Analytics Management Product Development 96

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2018

Let me use the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework for product development to explain why. Reams have been written about the JTBD framework. I will give you a high-level summary here, but if you are building products then I recommend spending some time with Google to find out a bit more. An example from Photobox.

Customer 75

Customer Framework Differentiation Customer Development 75

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This 100+-year-old company has seven major product divisions, each with hundreds of products. To succeed they realized this isn’t simply coming up with one new product. Understand whether the problem is immediately solvable, requires multiple minimum viable products to test several solutions, or needs more R&D.

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Framework Distribution Channel Leadership 401

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

I believe it means were achieving product/market fit for a set of ideas. Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. Ideas, products, and capital flow easily across borders. Congratulations. Not anymore.

San Francisco 120

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 120

ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well.

Analytics 99

Analytics Engineer SEO Channel 99

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Way back when the money was doled out, the team made a compelling pitch about the large market that was going to adopt their new innovative product or service. Safely because it is clear that the manager in question didnt do his homework.

Hockey Stick 105

Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

My career spans customer service, engineering, finance, product development, marketing, sales, and corporate functions. Nothing seems to be going your way from a product/hiring/deadlines? Point solutions don’t scale, frameworks scale (and people are grateful you've taught them a different way to think).

Saudi Arabia 167

Saudi Arabia Green Leadership Web 167

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Virtualization and cloud computing products allow multiple users to run on a single physical host, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that hardware across multiple environments. has sales offices throughout Korea and over 1,000 retailers carrying its product line, in addition to a local formulation facility.

Israel 87

Israel Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87