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

YoungUpstarts

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. I was one of four leaders of an enormous failed development project at Wells Fargo around 2007. Which brings us to this book.

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Generation Agile: 10 Tips How To Lead Effectively A Newly Outsourced Development Team

YoungUpstarts

Agile project management and team leadership are best showcased by leading a team of developers in completing software development projects. Scrum is the most popular Agile methodology, with Jira, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Project, being the most popular tool to be used in Agile project management. Agile At A Glance.

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Three Methodologies That Help Businesses Stay Creative

YoungUpstarts

It was adopted in the software development industry. It follows a linear, sequential process and is the most common version of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for IT and software engineering projects. After the initial requirements are set, the team produces a requirement specification document. Scrum methodology.

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5 Agile Practices That Are Fueling Marketing Teams

ConversionXL

Agile for developers is not Agile for marketers. While software developers prefer more prescriptive methods, like Scrum , marketers borrow heavily from the Kanban framework. The most recent stats show that 47% of marketers are using a hybrid approach, and only 14% actually use pure Scrum. There are other differences.

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12 ways to get your business development and tech teams on the same page

The Next Web

To find out, I ask 12 founders from YEC the following: How can I get my business development team and my tech team to work more harmoniously with each other? Because they have two totally different roles, the business development team and the tech team often don’t understand each other’s hurdles and objectives very well. Build Trust.

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Managing a remote team? We've got the right project management techniques for you

Transformify

1- Scrum: Scrum is an agile project management methodology with a focus on delivering products as fast as possible. A scrum team is a small group of (no more than 9) cross-functional professionals that are responsible for the project as a whole. Contrary to Scrum which allocated a fixed time (i.e. 3- Scrumban.

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

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

” As the only technical founder of the group, I could offer some suggestions regarding the software development aspect. There are several checkpoints in the development of a new feature where you can check for quality. In the software development world, you can look at techniques like the Planning Poker. Development.