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How To Hire Scrum For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

This waterfall methodology follows a few consecutive steps, including analysis, designing, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. This solution is a philosophy, and this philosophy is AGILE. Agile is a manifesto that has been put forth by a bunch of people and to implement it. We use SCRUM. Startups and SCRUM.

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Why Everyone Wants To Be Agile

YoungUpstarts

If you keep up with the news on project management and business strategy, you’ve probably come across the buzzword “agile” more than a few times. But what does it mean to be agile and do agile as a business unit? But what does it mean to be agile and do agile as a business unit? Defining Agile.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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The Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs and Obsessive Collectors

Up and Running

It’s simple, colorful, adaptive and therefore—in today’s flat design, utility driven world—sexy! Branding and design tools for the DIYer. And, if you really do need inspiration, take a look at their new, free online design school, packed with design tips for non-designers. This is Pinterest for “word people.”

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Stop Starting, Start Finishing with Agile

ReadWriteStart

At the same time, leaders are also looking towards acquiring that entrepreneur Agility. Thus, many have been fostering Agile thinking and mindset within their teams. It is executed through practices of Kanban , Scrum, XP. What is Agile Thinking? It’s more than just working by the Agile principles.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

These specs are handed to a designer, who builds layouts and mockups of all the salient points. Then the designs are handed to a team of programmers with various specialties. The programmers keep asking for more say in the designs and direction that they work on. First, he writes it nice and clear.