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

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The problem, is historically, the investment in time and resources required for traditional digital solutions can feel out of reach, and the type of programs used by corporations aren’t practical for SMBs for daily operations like reporting, inventory, or accounting. Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

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” There is no law, other than the word of the manager on duty — who decrees that we could get in with the camera if we paid some ludicrous amount of money to procure a permit on the spot. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Less is more.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. It is so true, but non-tech managers usually try to ignore the facts away. You'll still waste a lot of time attempting to debug them.

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Startup Lessons Learned

Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. Once an agreement is reached, the Chief Engineer continually watches to make sure that the functions are following through.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. Product owners and technical managers also need to interpret this scenario properly.

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