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How To Build A Career In Agile Software Development

YoungUpstarts

It is no surprise that Agile as a revolution of the software development and project management world is still picking up its pace. This has caused a need for Agile professionals within the IT sector who understand the principles and methodology behind this concepts of Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean.

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How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen and Scrum

Up and Running

The word kanban means “signboard” or “billboard” in Japanese, and it’s a concept most commonly applied to “lean” or “just in time” production. They quickly focused their attention on supermarkets—specifically, the ways that supermarkets study customer behavior in order to create better shopping experiences.

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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. Lean Startups need to make snap decisions, iterate quickly and pivot when needed. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams.

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Why Everyone Wants To Be Agile

YoungUpstarts

You may have also noticed that agile methodology — which was once thought to be only for software developers — is now being used just about everywhere, from construction to marketing, human resources, manufacturing, and even wedding planning. Why it Can Work Outside of Software Development. Defining Agile.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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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. 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. Enter Jims post.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop.