Bloomington Startup Weekend

I have to say that I am the luckiest Startup Weekend Product Manager here.
I’ve been hanging out with the Development group. While a lot of the things being talked about are above my head I’ve done enough with web development to know a lot of the stuff they are saying.
As far as delegating work, making […]

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As you come in to city hall today you can almost physically feel the sense of urgency in the air.
At the same time you almost get another feeling that seems contradictory in that people also feel a lot slower, a bit more tired and almost a bit run down.
Everyone knows the job that needs done […]

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We’ve just had another good productive meeting and the site is defined a bit more.
Everyone has a role and a task and have set off to completing the tasks.
We’ve been working on a large range of items that need completed by the end of the night and everyone is sprinting to get them done.
From a […]

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A lot of progress has been made since the 4pm meeting.
You can tell that everyone is hard at work on something as you walk around city hall.
People are glued to the computer screens, the guys working on the code are all drinking energy drinks and mashing away at the keyboards almost non-stop.
You can feel a […]

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Without going in to specific details things from the end of product management are starting to look up. The individual teams are communicating with each other a bit better now, the programmers have an idea of where they are going and have really taken the lead on what they will do, the marketing guys have […]

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