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5 Agile Practices That Are Fueling Marketing Teams

ConversionXL

Each spring, the annual State of Agile Marketing Report sheds light on how Agile ways of working are being adopted within marketing. This year, for the first time in the report’s three-year history, Agile techniques overtook those maintaining traditional processes. But Agile is about more than just speed.

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Why Everyone Wants To Be Agile

YoungUpstarts

If you keep up with the news on project management and business strategy, you’ve probably come across the buzzword “agile” more than a few times. But what does it mean to be agile and do agile as a business unit? But can agile really be used for anything, in any industry? Defining Agile.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed. The result? Carpe Diem – Seize the Cash.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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[Interview] Louis Carter, Author Of ‘In Great Company: How To Spark Peak Performance By Creating An Emotionally Connected Workplace’

YoungUpstarts

The Best Practice Institute is a think tank and solutions incubator founded in 2001. Our mission is to transform ourselves and our organizations by implementing the best and next practices in organization development and change. When you lose your entrepreneurial culture as you grow, you lose your agility. Don’t let this happen.

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Why Small Teams Win: Eight Reasons To Stick To The “Two-Pizza” Rule

YoungUpstarts

As companies strive to stay agile and innovative, they’ve discovered that units of 8 to 12 people work best as the natural size of high-performance teams. Not too long ago, German software giant SAP blew up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replaced it with “mini-teams” of roughly 10 people.

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Three Counterintuitive Ways To Build A Business That Lasts

YoungUpstarts

We then created private offices for each developer and provided them with catered lunches. There are also unforeseen disasters, such as the 2008 financial crisis, that businesses need to be agile enough to overcome. Not only does this compensate for when they get bored, but also it means you have a developing and motivated team.