Tools of the Lean Trade
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Tools of the Lean Trade Yair Flicker July 24, 2012
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If great ideas were enough to make you successful, we’d all be buying Maseratis. Unfortunately, things get precarious when you try to build your great ideas into production web and mobile applications. Guiding startups and enterprises alike through the application development process safely is our specialty at SmartLogic. This is not something you can wander through and hope for the best. There are specific tools and strategies that will take the pain out of the development process. Check out our slides for tips on the application development process, or read the blog post here: http://blog.wasabiventures.com/tools-of-the-startup-trade-application-development-lifesavers/.
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Tools of the Lean Trade
Yair FlickerJuly 24, 2012
Context
•What I do: SmartLogic
•You have a backlog of features to build
•What’s the best way to build them?
Answer
•The minimal amount of process to enable:
•Developers to deliver features
•Product Owners to create and then accept/reject features
•Expectations to be clear and to be met
How we do it: Tools
•Use Best-of-Breed Tools:
•Pivotal Tracker
•GitHub
•Campfire
•Skype / facetime / gchat
Tools: Pivotal Tracker
Tools: GitHub
Tools: CampfireCOMMUNICATE ALL THE TIME!!!
How we do it: Process
Just enough process
Takeaways
1. “No process” is a terrible process
2.KISS—Keep it simple, stupid!
3.Do what works for your team; fail and fix rapidly; experiment
4.Product owner accepts features
5.Communicate all the time
Thanks
•Q&A
•I’m Yair Flicker—find me at http://hiya.ir/
•@smartlogic
•http://fb.me/smartlogic
