Steve Neiderhauser

Checklist for First Sprint

Roman Pichler provides a checklist for the first sprint of a new product.

Things to consider?

Shared vision.
Product Strategy.
Valid Business Model.

Lean Experiment Map

So you want to practice Lean Startup concepts and run a bunch of experiments before you write one line of code for you new product.

How do you run the experiments? What are the steps for the build-measure-learn loop? Guess what?

Moves the Needle provides the Experiment Map, a free tool that provides the steps and structure for your experiments.

Check out the tool here.

Three Ways to Limit Batch Size

In Scrum, we want to limit batch size so work flows smoothly through the system.

This diagram shows three ways to reduce batch size and provides three principles for keeping your work in a flow state.

Key Point from Lean Startup Conference

Last week, I attended the Lean Startup Conference. Lots of great concepts.

Here's a key point I gleaned after putting together concepts from several speakers. There's a confluence of technologies and development techniques that delivers a competitive advantage to anyone who masters them.

Lean Startup Minimum Viable Product

Here's a great introduction to the Lean Startup concept -- Minimum Viable Product.

Eric Ries provides this MVP definition: The minimum set of features needed to learn from earlyvangelist -- visionary early adopters.

Getting Things Done

With the iterative approach to product development, a team only has two weeks to get things done.

Of course, Scrum teams should have a definition of Ready and Done. Two of the factors to getting things done.

Jeff Sutherland recites five causes of team failures.