article thumbnail

5 Types Of Business Strategies To Consider Before Opening Up Shop

YoungUpstarts

Using SOM is perfect for system designers who’re interested in having customization of the interface, form factor, and other electronic components. If you’re in software development, you’ve likely heard of the Scrum method. Best of all, Scrum helps teams remain agile by encouraging flexibility in your workflow.

SCRUM 147
article thumbnail

Learning from the High Flyers, Part Two

Growthink Blog

Here are four critical business domains - financing, sales, organization design and goal setting where the high-flyers get it right: Financing. Speed of product development, of brand-building, of customer acquisition, of team-building and talent aggregation. Organization Design. Financing, Sales, Organization Design, Planning.

SCRUM 48
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

You’ll likely have to make a case to get developer and designer resources and bring your asks into the right formats for product teams to push them forward. If you’ve never heard the term scrum or agile before, you’re behind. New features need to be written in user stories to fit the scrum framework. Know the process.

SEO 159
article thumbnail

The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

Entire conversations would take place when the CTO and I were in China whilst the CMO/designer was left to catch up hours later through chat or a rehashed conversation. Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. Measurable.

article thumbnail

Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

ConversionXL

Playground designers intend for you to slide down the slide, but, of course, children always want to climb up the slide. For example, Kanban and Scrum are two popular agile project management rituals. What’s the right way to play on a playground? Is it to go down the slide first? Up-and-down on the seesaw?

Agile 139
article thumbnail

Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. They can call a meeting with all the stakeholders in the room and then just let them fight it out – this is design by committee and it rarely yields anything beyond mediocrity.

Product 60
article thumbnail

7 Account-Based Marketing Examples and Lessons

ConversionXL

Account-based marketing is an extremely targeted approach (one-to-one rather than one-to-many), so it usually has a much higher customer acquisition cost (CAC). Ads strategically placed on relevant websites or platforms that are designed to look like organic content. Follow GumGum’s lead when it comes to designing personalized content.

Marketing 100