This document discusses agile business development and provides examples. It introduces agile principles like individuals and interactions, responding to change, and customer collaboration. It discusses learning from testing hypotheses and iterating based on data. An example is provided about RailsBridge workshops increasing the number of women in tech meetups through testing ideas simply. Another example discusses Mightyverse using video communication across languages and cultures. The document emphasizes measuring goals and hypotheses, developing working code, and learning from real customer metrics.
12. “Learning is the essential unit
of progress for start-ups.”
— Eric Ries
13. learn: what do we know? (numbers are good)
hypothesis: what do we believe? (numbers are good)
test: how can we check against reality?
analyze: does the data support our hypothesis?
59. learn: record baseline metrics from real customers
hypothesis: Pivotal Tracker story with UI change + hypothesis
test: deploy the feature
analyze: validate hypothesis based on feature usage metrics