Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Critical also, as the lean company/start-up can not be lean by just using lean principles in IT and not in Product Development/Management - a common misinterpretation of the Toyota Production System.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Sometimes we have the attitude that the Product Development team is the one responsible for Activation and Retention (hey, a great product would do that naturally) or that the Marketing team is responsible for Revenue and Referral (hey, go get me some money or free customers already). April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Bring your questions.

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OCTOBER 5, 2008

But first I think we need to save the product manager from that special form of torture only a waterfall product development team can create. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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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. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 11comments: Peter Severin said. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Interesting post. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

We started with a simple wiki page with a few bullet points of things that new engineers had tripped over recently. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Leave your thoughts in a comment.

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MARCH 25, 2010

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down? This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team. There are three stages: We start with ideas about what our product could be. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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APRIL 4, 2010

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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JULY 29, 2009

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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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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MARCH 16, 2009

Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development. Eric Ries Lean Startup Schematic View Of Agile Development And Customer Development View more presentations from Eric Ries. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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AUGUST 2, 2008

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

This development philosophy created a culture around rapid prototyping of features, followed by testing them against large numbers of actual customers. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

If youre interested in contributing a case study for publication here, consider getting started by adding it to the Lean Startup Wiki case study section. I try and follow a formalized Five Whys process (using our internal wiki) for every error. I try and follow a formalized Five Whys process (using our internal wiki) for every error.

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APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. Labels: hiring , product development 5comments: TedHoward said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall product development process. There are some good anecdotes about Chief Engineers in the Toyota Product Development Book. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Great post Eric.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2009

None of it would have happened if we had plenty of cash, or were content to count our progress by traffic or product development milestones. Labels: product development 4comments: Doug said. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Thank you Eric. Bring your questions.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Eric, Any thoughts on how forum feedback fits into customer development and agile product development? Youve probably addressed this in the past, but I continue to be blown away by how fast Blizzard reacts to noise in their forums and rapidly makes fixes to the product. . =) November 4, 2008 10:58 PM IMVU said.

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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. I think Drucker said it best. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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Software Review San Francisco Technical Review Continuous Deployment 68

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. When we’re optimizing, product development teams encounter similar situations. I mean, here we are, paying them to be there, and they won’t use the product!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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