AgilityFeat had an opportunity to meet Tony Cappaert, co-founder of Contactually, at AgileDC a few weeks ago. After hearing Tony tell the Contactually story, we wanted to learn more and asked Tony to share his insights into how...
Ford Englander is AgilityFeat's new VP for Business Development, and a long time mentor and friend to me. I'm thrilled to have him join the US ranks of AgilityFeat because Ford brings in a wealth of experience that is going to help us...
Want to get a sneak peak at what to expect at the DareToBeLean conference? Well, here’s your chance! On November 15th at 12:30 EST, AgilityFeat will present a “fireside chat”, interwebs-style with Patrick Vlaskovits. You already know...
In this week's “news from the startup front”, here's what our team of code commandos is reading, writing and watching: DareToBeLean Super Early Bird pricing ends October 31st! Join Patrick Vlaskovits for a free Customer Development...
How are lederhosen, lean startups, and customer discovery related? Let me tell you about my weekend in Boston, and I promise there is a connection. Startup Weekends and Lean Startup Machines Recently I was scheduled to be a Lean Startup...
January 9th - 11th, 2013 will be the dates that you learn how to make your startup dreams a reality. DareToBeLean is going to be a great 3 day workshop, on the beach in Tamarindo Costa Rica, that covers everything you need to know to...
I'm very pleased to say that I will be presenting an Ignite talk at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco in December. I will talk about some anti-patterns that I see in software development for startups. In short, my advice is...
In this week's “news from the startup front”, here's what our team of code commandos is reading, writing and watching: Patrick Vlaskovits, “The Lean Entrepreneur” to kick-off DareToBeLean AgilityFeat joins C3 working space in Cambridge MA...
AgilityFeat is now a proud member of the C3 co-working space in the Cambridge Innovation Center! Home of the Venture Cafe every Thursday, and over 400 start-ups every day, this is a great organization we are now proud to be part of! ...
CIO magazine posted an article this week entitled "7 Tips to Offshore Agile Development", and they got it mostly right, but I would like to add 4 more tips that I think are critical to effective agile outsourcing. Stephanie Overby wrote...
Time for a demo of wishlisting.org! In this post I will give you a demo of the current features, and then we will step through a couple of the automated tests that we have in place for the site. Using wishlisting.org to teach agile......
Patrick Vlaskovits to lead Customer Development workshop at D2BL2013 3-day workshop to be held on the beach in Costa Rica Software development firm AgilityFeat is pleased to announce that Patrick Vlaskovits will be leading a full day...
My wife and I love the TV show "The Big Bang Theory." And given the name of the show, this clip is particularly funny to me because software betas are discussed in the context of a relationship. Leonard and Penny are flirting with the...
In this week's “news from the startup front”, here's what our team of code commandos is reading, writing and watching: Save the date for DareToBeLean Jan 9-11 2013! Resort Survey for DareToBeLean Report from MoDevTablet in Washington DC...
Help us choose the resort for DareToBeLean! I could use your help choosing the location for the Dare To Be Lean workshop this coming January 2013! In case you don’t already know what Dare To Be Lean is, here’s the quick rundown....
Does your startup have a mobile application component? You're certainly not alone, and that app should be more than just a mobile-aware website. That's one thing that I heard repeated at the #MoDevTablet conference last Friday just...
AgilityFeat is based in two of my favorite places on Earth: Charlottesville, Virginia and Costa Rica. As I often tell people, I would rather travel a lot than move away from Charlottesville. I'm not the only person like that around...
This is the first in a regular new series rounding up different blogs and articles that our team of Costa Rican Code Commandos found interesting. This “news from the startup front” will focus on agile development, startups, and anything...
There is clearly a lot of interest in lean startups in Charlottesville! Lean Startup Circle Charlottesville held our first meeting last night and it was a great success, with around 25 people attending. Our Meetup group is now up to 42+...
What can the story of FreshBooks teach us about lean startups and agile development? Last week I received an email that got me thinking about that. I use Freshbooks at AgilityFeat for invoicing our customers, and it's great. It's an...
Last night I attended an impromptu meeting of the #LeanDC meetup. I say impromptu because it's my understanding they pulled the meeting together in just a few days because Eric Ries, author of the Lean Startup, was in DC this week and so...
Today's your last day to see what the buzz is about Sensei and Agile Retrospectives at Agile 2012! Lithespeed has launched their Sensei product into beta, and we at AgilityFeat are particularly proud of it because our team of Costa Rican...
Get your green now before it's too late! Green Cucumber tests, that is. This is the last day of the Agile Dev Lab at the Agile 2012 conference, where we are working on the website wishlisting.org for charities to use for very specific...
Uber is a very cool and innovative company whose mobile app makes it easier to hail a private limo service. This is the kind of great startup that any innovative city's government should be excited to have serving their area. But...
The Agile Dev Lab is open for business at Agile 2012 in Dallas Texas! This week we will be here from 9am-5pm Tuesday - Thursday doing Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) with Cucumber and Ruby to build the website wishlisting.org...