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How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen and Scrum

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See Also: From Problem Solving to Organic Pickles: 7 Startup Lessons from an Inspiring Entrepreneur. Although the retail giant has recently been in hot water regarding their company culture, it will never be said that they’re willing to rest on their laurels. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Lean Startups need to make snap decisions, iterate quickly and pivot when needed. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams.

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Stop Starting, Start Finishing with Agile

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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 product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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25 Things that make hiring technical talent much easier

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Your startup has real business traction. Your startup is generating a lot of awareness and buzz. You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). Your technical lead has good enough business sense to have the full respect of the rest of the management team. See the Joel Test.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

So now I'm home-based in Austin, Texas and I'm spending a lot of time with a lot of startups and a lot of CEOs that are trying to scale their companies. So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes. Be very outcome-driven in the world we're going to. Let's go."

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Product Fail

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This is usually where Agile finally enters the picture. Anyway, the engineers will typically break up the work into a set of iterations - called “sprints” in the Scrum process. In fairness to the engineers, they’re typically doing about as much Agile as they can given the broader Waterfall context.

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