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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

From early time-sharing systems on rented mainframe terminals to recent public cloud multichannel solutions, I’ve observed that the real leverage points and challenges are the people, not the technology. I was the only person from software or finance. Neither approach is “right” — it depends on context. Which brings us to this book.

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

YoungUpstarts

In light of this, software developers are beginning to cater to the digital transformation needs of SMBs. Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business. SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software. Enterprise Apps.

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Are Agile Innovation Methods Right for Your Team?

The Startup Magazine

Is this a software development project? Software development projects are suitable for agile methodology and allow certain features to be revealed sooner, as parts of these types of projects can be developed, tested and delivered separately and more seamlessly. How Cloud Call Centers Can Help. Are your teams co-located? —

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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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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: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next. The breakthrough idea of agile is that software should be built iteratively, with the pieces that customers value most created first. Hes often felt that there was something missing.

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Startup Tools

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Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.