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.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Kanban: a method used to control production. The word kanban means “signboard” or “billboard” in Japanese, and it’s a concept most commonly applied to “lean” or “just in time” production. Kanban is a scheduling system for “just in time” production. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. (See

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

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

The business development team needs to see the customer feedback they deliver make it back into the product, and the tech team needs to see reasonable requests to develop new features without a constant stream of changing direction. . - Phil Chen , Givit. Build Trust. You need to build trust between these teams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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. Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product.

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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. I want every product leader to feel considerable urgency and importance around this need.

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Transformify

JANUARY 2, 2021

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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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. Lets start with the most important thing you can do to help product teams succeed: make them cross-functional.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. But that team may also include product marketers or other in-house customers who can give insight into the impact that solution trade-offs might have on customers. Register here.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

A full copy of the state of the entire company and your product is easily contained within everyone’s brain. At this stage, you’re trying to create and vet your minimum viable product, which is a fancy way of saying that you’re trying to figure out what you’re even doing here. Stage 2: The first hires.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. about what their function needs to do to fully support the product.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2020

Instead, we need to streamline and accelerate our processes by borrowing techniques from the world of lean and agile product development. Like its cousin the Minimum Viable Product, a Minimum Viable Persona seeks to provide just enough information to allow work to start.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. If we believe in founders enough, we should believe in their potential more than what they could be paying us to build the product.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy. Development teams working with these unknowns will often introduce "spikes" into the product backlog to complete discovery work and remove risks. Email This BlogThis!

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

Speed of product development, of brand-building, of customer acquisition, of team-building and talent aggregation. Well, you may say, if my business, my industry, my product was as exciting as theirs, then I would be more enthusiastic too! Like Uber raising $8.7 billion over 7 years. Or Airbnb raising $2.3 billion over 8.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Great for visualizing work of product development. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Acunote â??

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Manage Your Workflow — Or Else.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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