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Are Agile Innovation Methods Right for Your Team?

The Startup Magazine

It requires strong leadership that inspires change and experimentation, as well as frequent reviews of any obstacles in order to minimize risk efficiently. Is this a software development project? How Cloud Call Centers Can Help. Cloud call centers are more flexible, agile and cost-efficient than traditional models.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Do you fix bugs before writing code? Please leave feedback!)

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Each specialist takes up his part of the spec (UI, middleware, backend) and cranks out code. So the product manager winds up actually having to use the software, by hand, updating the spec and helping create a new test plan. In exchange, the team agrees to show each piece of working code to the product manager for his approval.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due. Yet there is one silver lining when it does happen: we wind up throwing out working code , debt-riddled and elegantly designed alike.

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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

While open-source tools, readily available APIs, social platforms and cloud hosting providers have made it easier in many ways, being a Web entrepreneur is still not for the faint of heart. It's challenging to build, design and deploy software. I'm a huge fan of scrum and would encourage any startup to explore it.

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Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

ConversionXL

For example, the Jira Software team created a microsite dedicated to product-agnostic education about becoming an agile team. For example, Kanban and Scrum are two popular agile project management rituals. The Agile Coach includes a mix of long-form articles, vidoes, and tutorials. Look at communities where your audience spends time.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. In 1993, Word 6.0

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