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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

New data-powered solutions give companies that would ordinarily be too large to customize their offerings the insight to do so. SMBs falsely assume that custom analytics platforms and data science is too complicated. One example would be generating order confirmation emails after a customer completes a purchase online.

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Are Agile Innovation Methods Right for Your Team?

The Startup Magazine

But instead of spending months on end coming up with the requirements that may or may not be what customers desire, using an agile methodology can help the product owner determine the features sooner, allowing for their feedback during the development process. How Cloud Call Centers Can Help. Is this a software development project?

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology Will Affect Their Business Tomorrow

Hearpreneur

8- Reduce our cost. It will allow us to avoid paying labor costs along with employee benefits. Thanks to Paul Lewis, Scrum Explainer ! #10- With the development of more option for team communication, project management, and customer retention, I can only expect better things for my business. 12- Faster Customer Service.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. No more, no less.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. There are no customers for that feature, UI issues or no. Do you have a spec?

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

The x-axis depicts technical complexity, risk, and cost which are all related. Use prototyping to lower technical risks and costs. I label this as a business or technical risk because if left unaddressed, it could open the door to new competitors or leave customers with unaddressable needs. cloud computing. (4).

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future. Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product. In addition, third-party services and API’s enabled us to do more with less, but at a cost: taking on the technical debt of products and teams outside our direct control.