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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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What Can Your Company Learn from Fast-Growing Startups?

ReadWriteStart

The number of people working remotely in the United States has risen by nearly 80 percent between 2005 and 2012. Remember, tools and platforms are designed to help support your existing workflow. Build an Agile Culture. Many companies today—both small and large—are realizing the benefits of organizational agility.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design. Have an account? Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The Hacker Chick Blog ended up becoming one of the top agile software development blogs on the Internet. I started my company in 2005 as a full-service marketing agency. That makes us work all the harder to perfect our designs. while, by the way, my company’s did not). Thanks to Abby Fichtner, Hacker Chick ! #8-

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech still says it best - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA.

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Teaching Customer Development and the Lean Startup – Topological Homeomorphism

Steve Blank

Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. The cases are designed to have insufficient or confusing information and usually end with a dilemma. We needed to teach both Customer Development and Agile methodologies. I’ve been teaching Customer Development at U.C. Four Steps.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

Unless you’re a designer you’re going to outsource the graphical design work you have, but remember, you get what you pay for. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged Accounting , Banking , design , Engineering , marketing , Outsourcing. 99designs are simplistic. Bookmark the permalink.