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Lean Startup & Tech PRESENTED BY OBIE FERNANDEZ Thursday, October 3, 13

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A basic primer on bringing Lean Startup techniques to technical teams and organizations. Talk centered on successful integration of engineers into small, cross-functional lean startup teams. Emphasis on addressing the resulting changes in the role of the engineer.

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Lean Startup & Tech

PRESENTED BY OBIE FERNANDEZThursday, October 3, 13

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“c’mon let us build cool stuff!”

every good engineer, everywhere

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“does this experiment really need

development?”lean product manager

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Pro tip: Engineers really hate throwing away their work

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Recognize that engineersbuild stuff, but they are

also critical for measuring and learning

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focus on learning and validating, not just purely developing

move quickly

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What about

Quality?!

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small team of awesome people is better than an army of regular people

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AgileConsidered compatible with lean startup...

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

• Working software over comprehensive documentation aka “release early and often”

• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

• Responding to change over following a plan

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“As a [role] I want [feature] so that [benefit].”

The most important part of a user story is not the feature but rather the user role and the

benefit he wants to achieve!http://shishkin.org/blog/lean-startup-for-your-agile-toolbox/

Agile: User Stories

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When defining the acceptance criteria for a user story, think about learning first.

What hypothesis are you trying to verify and what is the success criteria for it?

Agile: Acceptance

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Address the fear of change

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fucking����������� ������������������  pivots!

be aware of perceptionissues

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Tools and stuff• Open-source (in general)

• Launchrock

• Unbounce

• Mixpanel

• Polar

• ThoughtWorks Go

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