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Three Methodologies That Help Businesses Stay Creative

YoungUpstarts

It follows a linear, sequential process and is the most common version of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for IT and software engineering projects. After the initial requirements are set, the team produces a requirement specification document. Agile methodology. Advantages of Agile methodology.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. Now entering our third year with Agile we’re continually trying to improve the efficiency, productivity and velocity of the various teams. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams.

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

ConversionXL

In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. First, they have to be publicly accessible for users and search engines. Unless you’re a small, agile startup, shipping new features isn’t as simple as it sounds.

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Product Fail

SVPG

” These might be user stories or they might be more like some form of a functional spec but it’s purpose is to communicate with the designers and engineers what needs to be built. Finally the requirements and design specs make it to engineers. This is usually where Agile finally enters the picture.

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Using independent teams to scale a small company: A look at how games company Wooga works

The Next Web

Jesper Richter-Reichhelm is Head of Engineering at social games company Wooga. At the end of last year, a document was published that described how Spotify works using a decentralized approach of tribes and squads. I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams.

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

The advantages of cross-functional teams are well documented, and for a thorough treatment I recommend the theory in the second half of Agile Software Development with Scrum. Scrum recommends 30 days; I have worked in one or two-week cycles up to about three months. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

In the project, they upload multiple documents to be translated. Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. The system counts how many words are in each document. The announcement shows how many documents, how many words, and a price. The translator rejects or approves. The translator rejects or approves.