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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Its by far the hardest part of the puzzle of shipping successful products and both recommend that you get a customer in the room and ask them to clarify what they want as you go. Labels: customer development , product development 8comments: Sarah Milstein said.

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

Up and Running

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. So what does scrum look like in the modern workplace? See Also: How to Recognize and Put a Stop to Employee Burnout. Then Lead Them.

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Managing a remote team? We've got the right project management techniques for you

Transformify

1- Scrum: Scrum is an agile project management methodology with a focus on delivering products as fast as possible. A scrum team is a small group of (no more than 9) cross-functional professionals that are responsible for the project as a whole. Contrary to Scrum which allocated a fixed time (i.e. 3- Scrumban.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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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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Minimum Viable Persona – Get To Know Your Customers All Over Again

YoungUpstarts

Instead, we need to streamline and accelerate our processes by borrowing techniques from the world of lean and agile product development. You’ll note that it still has the word “viable” in its name, meaning it’s still able to live on its own.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Ideally, the economics of a development investment look like those of a cash investment; typically, a seed investor will get no more than about 20% of a company for his capital. Second, the company must eventually own the product development and maintenance functions in-house.