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

YoungUpstarts

This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. Start by identifying every method you currently have of collecting information, including marketing data, website metrics, feedback collection and analysis procedures.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. It quickly shows that “[item] for sale” is a query syntax eBay ranks well for but Amazon doesn’t. If you’ve never heard the term scrum or agile before, you’re behind.

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My new book: Farm Don’t Hunt

Guy Nirpaz

It is written in similar style to the Scrum book I’ve used to learn how to become a successful engineering leader. I started my journey in Customer Success seven years ago, and from the start one of the biggest challenges has been showing how Customer Success is different — from sales, customer support, marketing, etc.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. This makes lean supply chains more robust in the face of the unexpected: if sales suddenly dry up, they are stuck with less unsold inventory and simultaneously have less debt to service. These kinds of design are mostly orthogonal.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

No engineering team. So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. But where it makes sense, that team may also include engineers building new experiments or prototypes to try with customers. dalelarson : "Metrics are people, too."

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Why Successful Product Management Involves More Than Spectacular Specs

YoungUpstarts

In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Sound familiar? Maintain great release notes. .

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.