How to analyze the impact of velocity on your release date

While “agilefall” has many well documented downsides, I’ve found a counterintuitive bright side to the following aspect of it: “We have a product backlog with priorities, but we start working on a release with a long list of features already committed to the business.” In this case, we have a pretty detailed view of scope…

How to create an actionable client profile
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How to create an actionable client profile

He’s the first man to ever win three Oscars. Daniel Day Lewis, that is. For the entire filming of My Left Foot, he didn’t leave his wheelchair, sound coherent, or even feed himself. For Last of the Mohicans he became a survivalist. He lived off the land. For In the Name of the Father, he lived in a prison cell. He starved…

9 cringeworthy landing pages of multi-billion dollar tech giants
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9 cringeworthy landing pages of multi-billion dollar tech giants

Here are a few homepages of today’s tech giants from their early days. The homepages serve as a poignant reminder of the fact that it’s better to launch as quickly as possible when you are in a good market, rather than honing the perfect look and design. If you cut across the technology industry, the whole idea…

Empty pocket testing by Buffer
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Empty pocket testing by Buffer

The following are a number of Lean Startup validation case studies. Some will already be well known; some will be completely unknown. A lot of landing page testing has happened since The Lean Startup was being pieced together by Eric Reis. These are retrospective reconstructions of what happened using landing pages as vehicles for minimum…

Lean Startup 101
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Lean Startup 101

Lean Startup is based on the scientific process, albeit more business focused, focused on learning fast when you know little. It’s the fastest known way to validate a product idea. Consider this a Lean Startup 101 introduction to how to use it in your business. The first step of choosing a hypothesis to test is…