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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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The Best Project Management Framework for Startups

The Startup Magazine

Scrum for Managing Team Interactions Scrum is a perfected orchestration of teamwork that arises within the vast canopy of Agile. In Scrum, the project is broken down into manageable “sprints,” or iterations, that run for a few weeks and help keep the momentum going.

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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

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.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Indeed the first thing I thought when I read the first paragraphs that the product manager was operating in a white tower and that the developers felt disenfranchised. Im currently introducing lean to my new team.

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How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen and Scrum

Up and Running

The word kanban means “signboard” or “billboard” in Japanese, and it’s a concept most commonly applied to “lean” or “just in time” production. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. Finally, let’s take a look at the increasingly popular problem-solving method—especially in the technology sector—known as scrum.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. pay 'interest').