THE AGILITYFEAT BLOG
At AgilityFeat, we are more than just designers and coders. We are also thought leaders. Our team has spoken at conferences around the US, Europe, and Latin America. We were early leaders in applying agile methodologies to nearshore software development in Latin America. We shared these lessons in this blog through 2015. These days, we blog mainly about our other passion, WebRTC. Find us at https://webrtc.ventures/blog/.
Dec 18: News from the Startup Front
Wow, this year has flown by! In our final “news from the startup front” of 2012, our code commandos have been thinking a lot lately about Lean Startups, nearshoring, and our upcoming workshop in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. There's lots of...
AgilityFeat is hiring an Agile Engineering Coach
AgilityFeat is hiring an agile engineering coach! Well, sort of. You see … here’s the deal. AgilityFeat does two things: (1) custom software development in Costa Rica, and (2) agile process and engineering coaching and training for...
A few links from the #LeanStartup Conference
The LeanStartup.co conference was great, and internally at AgilityFeat we are still incorporating some of the lessons that our team learned by participating in the conference. As a bookmark to myself, and perhaps useful to you too, I'm...
6 Lessons from #LeanStartup Conference
What's the best conference that you've ever been to? For me, the 2012 Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco is definitely the best one that I've been to so far. It was my favorite as a speaker, where I did a short Ignite talk on...
Things I learned in the morning at The Lean Startup Conference (part 1)
Yesterday, I went to The Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco. It was a full day of incredible presentations, fireside chats (without the fires), sharing of lessons learned and of course networking. This was my first Lean Startup...
Slides for “Just Deploy It!” from Lean Startup Conference
Here are the slides that I used last night at the Lean Startup Conference's Ignite talks. I am indebted to Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein of The Lean Startup Conference for giving me the opportunity to present. I have spoken at a good...
2 Pivots and 3 Lessons at Lean Startup Machine San Francisco
A little background on LSM events David Alfaro and I have had a great weekend here at Lean Startup Machine San Francisco, as part of our LeanStartupConf tour of the area. For those not aware, LSM events start on Friday night, teams form...
3 things I learned at #WarmGun about #UX
"Good design is no longer something that sets you apart on the web, it's the price of admission." - That's a paraphrase of a great quote I heard at the WarmGun UX conference in San Francisco. I attended WarmGun as part of my all inclusive...
Immersing in Silicon Valley at SiliconHouse.us
How to get connected in Silicon Valley The startup world is definitely about "who you know." But more importantly, it's also about who you network with, who inspires you, and who you can help inspire or mentor. Since all of this is based...
For entrepreneurs, the world has to be vertical #GEW
From Flat to Vertical The world is increasingly vertical for entrepreneurs. For well over a decade, companies in North America and elsewhere have been outsourcing parts of their software development around the world in search of the cost...
@PV webinar video on Customer Development
Yesterday the AgilityFeat team hosted a webinar with Patrick Vlaskovits, co-author of The Entrepreneurs Guide to Customer Development and the upcoming "The Lean Entrepreneur". Patrick will be leading a workshop on customer development at...
Nov 7: News from the Startup Front
In this week's “news from the startup front”, here's what our team of code commandos is reading, writing and watching: Ford Englander joins AgilityFeat as VP of Business Development Join us for an small group chat with Patrick Vlaskovits,...
How Contactually is applying Lean Startup Methodologies to make you more effective, an Interview with Tony Cappaert
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 joins AgilityFeat as VP of Business Development
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...
DareToBeLean Webinar with Patrick Vlaskovits on Nov 15th!
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...
Oct 26: News from the Startup Front
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...
Lederhosen and #LeanStartups
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...
Registration for DareToBeLean is open!
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...
AgilityFeat Presenting “Just Deploy It” at Ignite Lean Startup Conference
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...
Oct 10: News from the Startup Front
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 joins C3 in Cambridge
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! ...
4 more tips to Nearshore Agile Development
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...
Tour of Wishlisting.org and it’s Cucumber
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, “The Lean Entrepreneur” to kick-off DareToBeLean
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...
Betas, Big Bang Theories, and #Startups
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...