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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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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The breakthrough idea of agile is that software should be built iteratively, with the pieces that customers value most created first. Enter Jims post.

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology Will Affect Their Business Tomorrow

Hearpreneur

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. 14- Boost the rate of lead to sales conversion and eliminate the custom escalation cases.

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Two Business Tools That Boost Your Marketing Efforts 

YoungUpstarts

To do lists, Scrum tools, power bi and many more tools , which can optimize processes and ultimately create the most productive and efficient company that will generate growth for your company. Creating content with Adobe Cloud. All departments are being streamlined down and designed to be the most productive levels of themselves.

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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?