"We don't really practice agile development nor CD" - Mint.com

Re:"We don't really practice agile development nor CD" - Min... by far33d on Thursday October 15, 2009 @03:37PM (#884095)

"2) Market. We're in an existing market where the pain is pretty acute and the problem domain well defined. Additionally, the incumbent competitors had basically neglected the market as unattractive."

Cust. Dev. is not as important when competing in an existing market, as opposed to building a new market - there's less uncertainty about the needs of customers.

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Re:"We don't really practice agile development nor CD" - Min... by wensing on Thursday October 15, 2009 @11:48PM (#884764)

Unless you're re-segmenting the existing market.

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Re:"We don't really practice agile development nor CD" - Min... by alttab on Friday October 16, 2009 @01:11AM (#884827)

This comment is undervalued, a lot of times people don't necessarily know what "if I just get 1% of the market" really means because they haven't gathered any data

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Re:"We don't really practice agile development nor CD" - Min... by ebloch on Thursday October 15, 2009 @03:41PM (#884104)

Well put. I completely agree. This is something I've previously spent a good deal of time thinking about.

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