by arin | Jan 4, 2013 | Lean Startup, Startups
How do you convince engineers that it’s okay to build quick experiments, and deploy code that you will probably throw away? How do you convince rigorous engineers that it’s actually more efficient to work in a lean startup style? That is a topic that Sam McAfee from...
by arin | Jan 3, 2013 | Lean Startup, Startups, User Group Reports
The Ignite talks at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco in December were a lot of fun, both as an attendee and as a speaker. Below is the video of my talk on “Just Deploy It!”. In my talk, I focused on 5 anti-patterns that I see regularly in...
by arin | Dec 3, 2012 | Startups, User Group Reports
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 number of conferences...
by arin | Oct 16, 2012 | Events, Nearshore Agile, Startups
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 refine your startup idea and...
by arin | Oct 4, 2012 | Agile, Nearshore Agile
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 these 7 tips: Be...
