Monthly Archives: April 2010

A cork board, a sharpie, and some note cards

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I’ve read and heard a lot about using a physical agile board to manage software projects. The talented John Allison joined the ChallengePost team last week as our Lead Developer *crowd goes wild*. With his recommendation, we’re switching it up and trying something new. The image above is our agile board for this week’s sprint. [...]
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Where the tech ladies at?

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My friend Elizabeth Stark has been on a rampage ( a good one ) about the lack of women in technology. Her recent article titled Mentors Matter highlights disappointing numbers like 6 females of 53 entrepreneurs were featured in a New York Mag article on the NYC startup scene. (BTW, that’s 11.3% compared to the [...]
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Minimum Viable Product

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Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a concept popularized for web application development by Eric Ries. …the minimum viable product is that product which has just those features (and no more) that allows you to ship a product that resonates with early adopters; some of whom will pay you money or give you feedback. I apply [...]
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