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

Up and Running

When applied to the workplace, kaizen refers to activities that aim to improve every individual function within a company, including the way each of the employees operate, from the customer service representative, right up to the CEO until the whole business is running like a well-oiled machine. See Also: Want Your Team Engaged?

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Generation Agile: 10 Tips How To Lead Effectively A Newly Outsourced Development Team

YoungUpstarts

Agile, as the name suggests, is modeled with adaptability in mind. Agile project management and team leadership are best showcased by leading a team of developers in completing software development projects. Agile can also be applied across numerous other industries as an effective project management approach. Team Management.

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The Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs and Obsessive Collectors

Up and Running

Email management tools. Want an affordable CRM tool to manage your contacts, deals, projects, and messages? Use it to manage the hiring process, to keep track of investment and fundraising projects, to manage deals, and much more. Project management tools. LastPass Password Manager. Boomerang for Gmail.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”). Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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Should Your Startup Be an Agile Company

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Most startups are tiny which makes them perfectly suitable for the agile approach, even if we’re talking Scrum which (recommends) limits the number of team members to 9. Of course, one or two-person startups will probably not require any kind of a structured agile approach as they will operate as a tightly-knit unit by default.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. And the chief entrepreneur has a staff of chief portfolio manager, chief venture capitalist, and chief risk officer, right? I can't really give my manager feedback. I've never done that before.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

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. I have never seen (or even heard of) a normal team in your average large organization ever learn to manage technical debt dynamically.