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“Lean Startup *and* Agile”, not “Lean Startup vs Agile”

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Lars Vonk recently posted this comment on Joshua’s talk about Lean Startup: Why It Rocks Far More Than Agile Development

So I listened 30 minutes and stopped because I am thinking if this leanstartup is really an ugly baby? I heard a couple of things which feels like an agile rebranding thing:

- The example on the 9 months building and then launching. What book tells you that? How about Principle #1 from the Manifesto: Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early[...]

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My views on estimation in Agile projects. (Why planning poker is org smell)

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Over the past couple of days I had a discussion about estimation with “The” Glen Alleman of Herding Cats fame.

And it seems we have very different views on estimation. I have been trying to express them in 140 characters at a time, but I am not sure if my message came across properly to Glen and I wanted to share it not just with Glen, but with the rest of you as well. So here it goes. My point is that you only need[...]

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How vanity metrics got me high and depressed within 2 weeks

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And it being vanity metrics for no good reason too. Let me explain.

In October last year I decided to quit my job at Xebia and go out on my own. I had too many ideas in my head and it was about time to do something with them. I had just finished Eric Ries’ book The Lean Startup I wanted to do more with and was also playing with the idea for a workshop on storytelling for consultants. A couple of weeks later I was registered at the[...]

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