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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

Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk.

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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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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious management attention and/or resources. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. The result?

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious management attention and/or resources. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. The result?

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Do Your Employees Think Like Owners? 10 Tips For Building An Entrepreneurial Culture.

YoungUpstarts

Here’s an example of how they made performance-based compensation work: If someone sold 100 cases in April 2000, and 100 cases in April 2001 (these numbers are unrealistically small for simplicity), their commission would be the same in both years. But the most innovative, agile companies embrace mistakes.

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