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How To Hire Scrum For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

We use SCRUM. As its official website suggests, it is a better way of building products. Moreover, scrum and agile aren’t the same thing. The first and foremost shelf of the scrum framework is the product backlog. Now that all of this is set, who is going to manage the scrum team? Startups and SCRUM.

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5 Types Of Business Strategies To Consider Before Opening Up Shop

YoungUpstarts

Different ways of working are better suited to different industries and business sizes, so it’s crucial to consider these sorts of things before you begin hiring or go to market. One of the major benefits of using a SOM approach is that product development costs are drastically decreased and technical risk is also reduced.

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

The Next Web

Successful collaboration between a company’s business development and product development requires mutual understanding and purpose. Hire T-Shaped People. Make sure to hire T-shaped individuals. Workflow solutions can make a huge impact on the productivity of a team if the communication is well-facilitated.

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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. Its by far the hardest part of the puzzle of shipping successful products and both recommend that you get a customer in the room and ask them to clarify what they want as you go. Labels: customer development , product development 8comments: Sarah Milstein said.

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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. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. 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.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. But first I think we need to save the product manager from that special form of torture only a waterfall product development team can create. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said.