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

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See Also: From Problem Solving to Organic Pickles: 7 Startup Lessons from an Inspiring Entrepreneur. The word kanban means “signboard” or “billboard” in Japanese, and it’s a concept most commonly applied to “lean” or “just in time” production. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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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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Why Everyone Wants To Be Agile

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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: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The breakthrough idea of agile is that software should be built iteratively, with the pieces that customers value most created first. Hes often felt that there was something missing.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

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But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. Writes Blank, “ Great entrepreneurs don’t just have a Plan B, they have Plans B through ?.”

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) Joels Painless Bug Tracking is still the gold standard.

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How to manage technical and creative people when you’re in-between the two

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There is no better person to lean on while wading through uncharted waters than a guide who knows each bend and what it has to offer. Talking scrum to creative won’t work as well as to developers. Entrepreneur Insider How-To''s' They’ll be your bridge to the people on the other side of the tech (or creative) divide.