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

Up and Running

Kaizen: a way to improve all functions and all employees. All it takes is one observant employee to get the ball rolling, and soon a small group of hand-picked team members convenes to brainstorm—and eventually trial—new approaches to old problems. See Also: How to Recognize and Put a Stop to Employee Burnout.

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Are Agile Innovation Methods Right for Your Team?

The Startup Magazine

Moreover, an agile approach frees up management to give more attention to strategy and less to micromanaging employees and projects. Is this a software development project? Agile provides tools such as prototyping and feedback (both are essential) for a successful and efficient product or project development.

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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. Implementing enterprise apps at the operational level eliminates redundant operations, increase efficiency, and improves employee morale.

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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.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development. What causes projects like this to fail in traditional software development is that the solution is unknown.

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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? intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop.

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.