Sublime

They believe in the value of iteration.

Steve McMenamin • Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior (Dorset House eBooks)

Similarly, the best methods for managing projects are simple and intuitive.

Scott Belsky • Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

initial version of the product is built

Scott Kupor • Secrets of Sand Hill Road

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Charles W Johnston

@billj

not a project manager.

Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)

(early adopters).

Ash Maurya • Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean (O'Reilly))

program

Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering

My introduction to Scrum and Agile came through agile trainer Matt Gelbwaks. In early 2009 Matt and I initially spent a day together in our US offices, where we came up with a rough, back-of-the-envelope method for how to apply agile approaches to the right-hand side of the U Process.

Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution

Complete separation of duties: execs in charge of strategy, managers in charge of setting objectives, engineers free to execute their work as they see best.