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FRAGILE App Development

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February 24, 2018
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FRAGILE App Development

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Transcript

  1. AGILE FR Building an app on a shoestring budget.

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  5. Cargo Cult s

  6. ‘Unicorn’ startup Me

  7. @armstrong

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  10. 2006 – 2010

  11. 2010 – 2012

  12. Q4 2012

  13. 2013 — Present

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  19. Bootstrapped & Beautiful

  20. F R E E D O M

  21. $1 in profit is the ultimate FU money. JASON FREID,

    CEO @ BASECAMP “

  22. SLOWWWWWWWWW

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  24. Customers don’t care about our business model.

  25. CHALLENGES

  26. Bandwidt h

  27. What should we build?

  28. No

  29. Not yet.

  30. If I had an hour to solve a problem and

    my life depended on the solution, I would spend 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes. ALBERT EINSTEIN “

  31. Alix Stylist Allen VP of Marketing Laurie Graphic Designer

  32. “I want to select favourites” “I want to approve designs”

    “I want to select which shots to edit.” “I want my clients to vote on concepts.”
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  41. Work on the problems you understand best.

  42. Moment um

  43. Two-week sprint

  44. Two-week sprint

  45. Two-week sprint

  46. Two-week sprint

  47. Two-week sprint

  48. Two-week sprint

  49. Two-week sprint

  50. Two-day sprint

  51. Two-day sprint

  52. Two-day sprint

  53. Daily wins

  54. Big Picture Big Picture

  55. Something you can do in a day. Quick Win

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  58. Aim for perfection, accept improvement.

  59. Reduce the risk of failure

  60. The Snowball Effect

  61. He adsp ace

  62. Money is a poor motivator.

  63. Two-day sprint

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  66. Balance is key.

  67. Ownership

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  69. Margin of Error

  70. How much time can you afford to waste?

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  73. LOW EFFORT HIGH EFFORT LOW IMPACT HIGH IMPACT

  74. LOW EFFORT HIGH EFFORT LOW IMPACT HIGH IMPACT NOW

  75. LOW EFFORT HIGH EFFORT LOW IMPACT HIGH IMPACT NOW SOMEDAY

  76. LOW EFFORT HIGH EFFORT LOW IMPACT HIGH IMPACT NOW SOMEDAY

    MAYBE

  77. LOW EFFORT HIGH EFFORT LOW IMPACT HIGH IMPACT NOW NEVER

    SOMEDAY MAYBE
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  79. LOW EFFORT HIGH EFFORT LOW IMPACT HIGH IMPACT NOW

  80. LOW EFFORT HIGH EFFORT LOW IMPACT HIGH IMPACT NOW SOMEDAY

  81. Sliding tile’ roadmap ‘

  82. One-day sprint

  83. One-day sprint

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  85. One-day sprint

  86. x2 One-day sprint

  87. CHALLENGES

  88. CHALLENGES Compet e on underst anding

  89. CHALLENGES Compet e on underst anding DAILY WINS

  90. CHALLENGES Compet e on underst anding DAILY WINS K EEP

    IT INTERESTING

  91. CHALLENGES Compet e on underst anding DAILY WINS K EEP

    IT INTERESTING SLIDING TILE ROADMAP

  92. Your mileage may vary.

  93. There is no one-size-fits-all in business.

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  95. Thanks @armstrong [email protected]