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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

There will also still be some amazing companies that raise their Series C, D and beyond funding rounds with scaling metrics. We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. Serverless technologies….

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[Review] The Lean Startup

YoungUpstarts

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development).

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7 Ways To Keep Your Focus On Execution After The Idea

Startup Professionals Musings

Set business goals and milestones, and use metrics to track performance. A great business must be agile. In this era of rapid technology advancement, an open mind must be the norm in leveraging the latest tools and process architectures. Continuous improvement applies to the business model as well as the product.

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Implementing IT Automation Best Practices

The Startup Magazine

Non-standardization of IT architectures hinders the achievement of cost-effective. Organizations that lack standard configurations incur greater costs and less agile processes than organizations with standard configurations. Establishment of objectives with specific trackable metrics is the key to successful automation.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? That means knowing whats written and whats not, what the architecture can and cant support, and how long it would take to build something new. But along the way, something strange happened.

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