YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

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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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The biggest trend in marketing in 2016 has been the idea of “agile marketing.” In a survey conducted by Workfront and Marketing Profs, roughly 30% of marketers are already using an agile methodology in their departments. But in no arena is the impact more strenuous than the one already most subjective and onerous: design.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

Consider a Production-Ready SOM. Also known as a system on module, SOM offers companies a unique strategy when it comes to developing products while keeping customizability fully possible. One of the major benefits of using a SOM approach is that product development costs are drastically decreased and technical risk is also reduced.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 12, 2016

Book Short: Scrum ptious . I just finished reading Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time , by Jeff Sutherland and JJ Sutherland. This reading was in anticipation of an Agile Facilitation training my executive team and I are going through next week, as part of Return Path’s Agile Everywhere initiative.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Manage Your Workflow — Or Else.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2016

A case management system (CMS) is a platform for deploying and designing solutions that assist people attain the right content, and apply analytics for faster and accurate decisions to ensure the business has a better outcome. Agile methodology. Advantages of Agile methodology. Scrum methodology. Change is embraced.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

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. Thats pretty clear.

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Transformify

JANUARY 2, 2021

Collaboration features, designing tools, and customizable templates in these tools allow you to do project planning right. 1- Scrum: Scrum is an agile project management methodology with a focus on delivering products as fast as possible. Contrary to Scrum which allocated a fixed time (i.e. 3- Scrumban.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

It's challenging to build, design and deploy software. In this post, I'll focus on a few keys to helping co-founders work together to build a better product. Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline. I'm a huge fan of scrum and would encourage any startup to explore it. Discuss.

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JUNE 5, 2015

NOTE: This article is a narrative version of a talk I’ve given for developers at the Craft Conference and for product managers and designers at Mind The Product. In this article I’d like to discuss the root causes of so many product failures. Finally the requirements and design specs make it to engineers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Agile marketing may not be a phrase you hear often, but it’s becoming increasingly popular and important. Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2020

by Andrea Fryrear, author of “ Mastering Marketing Agility “ The profound transformations in the world over the past 3 months have led to a radical and rapid fire transformation of consumers’ preferences and needs. With this data we can begin to create messaging designed to resonate with this person.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. A dedicated User Experience (UX) designer is assigned to this team.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

And one of the reasons I advocate for Scrum is that as a process it values this role of project manager as “impediment remover” (known as the Scrum Master role). But the project manager should facilitate the process, making sure people understand the roles and how they should collaborate to come up with strong products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. And what are some of the challenges they're facing with the product right now? The team learned that they didn’t need to build a better product.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Actually building and launching a product idea is generally the slowest, most expensive way to validate the idea. Which is why I'm a big advocate for what is sometimes referred to as Dual-Track Scrum. Lean UX and Dual-Track Scrum are made for each other.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To help you prep, I’ve collated a list of tools—for both web and mobile devices—that have helped me and others get things done, save time, and work more productively. It’s simple, colorful, adaptive and therefore—in today’s flat design, utility driven world—sexy! Branding and design tools for the DIYer. canva.com.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

Instead, what they had was a contract that promised Agile Software Development with Rapid Iterations and an incredibly vague list of features. In all four cases, I would claim that what's at fault is a common misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. My belief is that you shouldn't sign that contract.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams. Each game team is led by a product lead that has the final decision for the team. This starts with the type of game a product lead wants to make and ends with the way the teams organize themselves internally.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. Lets start with the most important thing you can do to help product teams succeed: make them cross-functional.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Five years ago I wrote an article arguing that it is essential that the product manager is also the product owner. What happened was that many people would go to a short and simple CSPO training, and come out of that understandably considering themselves product owners. Or whatever software management system their team is using.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Youd better.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

Boys and girls ages 11 -14 pitched ideas on Monday and then worked through the week to pitch their Minimum Viable Products to VCs on Friday — StartUp Weekend style. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Scrum boards are a huge success for kid teams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. Expo SF (May.

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MARCH 10, 2016

For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach. This articles speaks to how to select an Agile Coach that understands the needs of modern product organizations.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

Boys and girls ages 11 -14 pitched ideas on Monday and then worked through the week to pitch their Minimum Viable Products to VCs on Friday — StartUp Weekend style. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Scrum boards are a huge success for kid teams.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Color Scheme Designer. online/offline, extensible wireframing tool w/design library. 99 Designs - marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design. Customer service.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s a great example of how product features can drive organic traffic. In fact, new product features are the most underrated driver of SEO growth for large sites. movies, songs, products, profiles, etc.). For inventory-driven sites, the website is a big part of the product. I call the later type “inventory driven.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. about what their function needs to do to fully support the product.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I can send you more links to more information about our product if needed.” In the past, we’ve assumed that potential customers would always arrive at our website after Googling a specific search term, and we’d make them “aware” of a problem and how our product solves this problem. What’s the right way to play on a playground?

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2011

They're not going to be overly managed by a million product managers, project managers, etc., They'll be able to contribute to product ideas, not just execute yours. You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). You have clear product goals in relationship to who you want to be in your market.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

I’ve also learned that the design directions you take will often lead to very different functional requirements. I much prefer Agile methods like Scrum over Waterfall because of how much less weight is given to “requirements” in Scrum. It really is true that form and function are completely intertwined.

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