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An Updated Joel Test for 2017

Austin Startup

Here’s my take on an updated Joel Test for 2017, based on my career experience and how we build software at VidiGuard. Without a doubt, some of my changes draw from Agile methodologies (a good idea, but a terrible religion). There is limited place for a developer tool that can’t at least commit locally on an airplane in 2017.

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ProductCamp Austin 2017 — a few lessons

Austin Startup

Upgrade From This Old Unnecessary Process David Hawks , CEO, Agile Velocity Main take-away — focus on discovery, not as much delivery. Most of the Agile world is in the perspective of delivery focus. After listening, below are lessons learned from four sessions of the 25 offered. User Stories Suck!

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Internet of Things: The Skills Connected Companies Look For In Young Professionals

YoungUpstarts

Just check out the IoT job trend graphic from www.indeed.com, posted on February 2017 below: that is what we call exponential growth. In a 2017 survey 47% of organizations said they lack the skills to make the most from IoT at a delivery level. It’s the kind of flexibility the IoT needs: an appetite for change and agility.

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

When each of the other six waves initially arrived, the early adopters were the more agile outliers. — Now graduates of 2017, as you turn back to your phones, light a path for the better angels. You think and process things differently from how your parents, grandparents and any other humans who have ever lived.

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Agile Everywhere, Part II

OnlyOnce

Over the years, I’ve written a lot about the Agile methodology on this blog. For those of you who are regular readers, you may remember a post I wrote about our Agile Everywhere initiative — where all Return Path teams were tasked with implementing agile practices. weren’t at all familiar with agile practices.

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How Future-Proof is Your Company (and Your Career)?

Startup Professionals Musings

This means that both you and your company need to be more agile, more open and willing to learn, and rethink your focus on the future versus the present. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/04/2017. Sometimes you have to make waves today to balance and survive the waves already starting to crash around you.

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Why You Should Enlist a Business Mentor, Or Be One

Startup Professionals Musings

These days, flexibility and agility to meet new customer requirements is a key to success. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/02/2017. You will never get to where you want to go if you don’t have a roadmap, and you’ll never know if you have arrived if you don’t take checkpoints. Practice how to do this with your mentor.