Moneyball has been credited within the Lean Startup community as a classic example of some of their principles. I thought for those who haven’t had an opportunity to watch it that I would note some of the more powerful statements made in the movie. Some are slightly modified to apply outside of baseball so that …
There is a growing trend within the Scrum community that believe when they are doing software development that it is actually product development. This is not the case. Software development is subset of work that is needed to be done to support product development. In small organizations the deviation between software and product development might …
I have just finished reading “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries for the second time and have been spending some time working with a team using the model. Joyfully it has made me think about opportunities out there and if I ever had my own push to be entrepreneurial what exactly I would consider. As …
I have been pondering since reading Steve Denning’s on Fighting the Kool-Aid of Stock Based Compensation and Umair Haque’s Harvard Business Review’s The Economic Roots of your Life Crisis about perilous journey that we might be on. Take a step back for a moment and consider some cause and effect. When my parents worked it was …
When people think of the term ‘gamer’ it engenders ideas of pasty white teenagers living their days in a zombie like state in the basement of their parents house spending over forty hours a week with their eyes glued to the pixels on their screen smashing keys on their keyboard. Despite this stereotype, 72% of …
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