Written by Arin Sime | Mar 19, 2013 | Lean Startup, Startups
Early in 2013, I was sitting on a beach in Costa Rica with the AgilityFeat team. Also with me was an author and visionary we hired to come work with our team for a couple days. That visionary was Patrick Vlaskovits, co-author of “The Lean Entrepreneur.”** As the Sun...
Written by Arin Sime | Mar 15, 2013 | Startups
Last year I blogged about how my friend Matt Makai is starting a 5 month journey to blog and code his way around the US. I’m excited for Matt that this journey has begun! You can follow him at CodingAcrossAmerica.com, and on Twitter. Matt started his journey...
Written by Arin Sime | Feb 28, 2013 | Startups
How’s your year going? Ours has been crazy-busy. That means we haven’t blogged as much as we’d like over the last month, but nonetheless we’ve got some important and hard-learned lessons to share with you. We’ve just gone through a period...
Written by Arin Sime | Feb 20, 2013 | Agile, Nearshore Agile
Not every project is going to run smoothly, even in the best of teams. We have a great team here at AgilityFeat, and we’re very selective when choosing our customers, so our projects tend to be very successful. But every team is going to hit bumps in the road...
Written by Arin Sime | Feb 18, 2013 | Agile, Lean Startup, Startups
Whether you are a bleeding edge startup or a large corporation running agile teams, here are four ways that you may be abusing agile concepts and letting perfection kill your chances of success. Product Owner Perfection In an agile team, the Product Owner (PO) is the...