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In a tech startup, how to improve the quality of your product

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Last week, one question that came up was “How do you keep the quality of your product up?” If you run into product quality issues (bugs), the first thing to look at is your team culture. The two founders complaining about the quality of their product were also often referring to their velocity. Peer review.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. And what are some of the challenges they're facing with the product right now? The team learned that they didn’t need to build a better product.

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology Will Affect Their Business Tomorrow

Hearpreneur

Society is changing and so is its demand and supply for new products and services. First, I encourage business owners to create resources on your website or social network feeds for clients to better understand the products that are provided. Thanks to Paul Lewis, Scrum Explainer ! #10- 8- Reduce our cost. Photo credit: CJ Xia.

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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. Now entering our third year with Agile we’re continually trying to improve the efficiency, productivity and velocity of the various teams.

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Agile Marketing: How to Implement Scrum for Digital Marketing

ConversionXL

Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. Before we dive into the marketing applications, however, let’s briefly cover what scrum is and how it came to be. Simple to understand.

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The Five Apps You Should be using with MS Teams

The Startup Magazine

Agile Scrum daily meetings have become a commonplace solution for development teams to hit and exceed targets. One Teams app in particular can be a godsend to teams forced into adopting remote work as standard and still maintain a working scrum methodology. ScrumGenius.

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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. But, over the years I’ve realized that the toughest problem - the one that matters most and was consistently the most challenging - was figuring out what the product backlog should be.

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