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Stop Starting, Start Finishing with Agile

ReadWriteStart

The competitive, oversaturated market pushes companies to seek better ways to manage workload and optimize the working process to strive for continuous improvement and client satisfaction. At the same time, leaders are also looking towards acquiring that entrepreneur Agility. What is Agile Thinking? Know how you spend your time.

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It’s An Agile World

Feld Thoughts

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. We just had to go build it to prove our point.

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Selecting An Agile Coach

SVPG

Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. So it''s no wonder that so many Agile trainers are bewildered by commercial product companies. I should have written this article many years ago.

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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

If we use our “startup to large company,” diagram, we can see that sustaining innovations occur within a large company’s existing management structures. The diagram for managing disruptive innovation in large company looks suspiciously like starting from square one as a startup. I’ll offer that the diagram looks something like this.

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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. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. The new process let us manage the velocity of change in the codebase low, keeping the resistance manageable.

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