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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

Though agile is all about process and that’s where much of our attention has gone, it’s time we shifted out focus on people and interactions. In his new book “ People Over Process: Leadership for Agility “, technology expert Michael K. By putting people first — as opposed to process. Can you talk a bit about yourself?

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5 Agile Practices That Are Fueling Marketing Teams

ConversionXL

Each spring, the annual State of Agile Marketing Report sheds light on how Agile ways of working are being adopted within marketing. This year, for the first time in the report’s three-year history, Agile techniques overtook those maintaining traditional processes. But Agile is about more than just speed.

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Software Outsourcing Companies In India

ReadWriteStart

Businesses may benefit from India’s talent pool and technical advances by partnering with them. This blog features the top ten software outsourcing businesses in India , highlighting their experience and software development solutions. Their approach is driven by the Agile methodology.

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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Leadership brand development. Strategic proficiency. Focus on talent and people growth.

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5 Steps To Locking In The Right New Venture Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. One that is no longer tied to large 20th-century industrial systems, but to a 21st-century software-centric agile world. While You Were Out.

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Should Your Startup Be an Agile Company

Women Entrepreneurs Can

They are allowed to develop organically which, unfortunately, can have some negative consequences well into the future. These days, one of the decisions that startup owners make (or at least should think about making) is whether to be an agile company from the very start, to try to adopt it later or to do things the more traditional way.

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