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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

Levine was an early proponent of agile and is a veteran of systems change and technology management. I’ve spent my career doing large-scale high impact technology management for major US institutions. I drew from experiences in my career and also from the leading software companies I’ve had the pleasure of partnering with.

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5 Agile Practices That Are Fueling Marketing Teams

ConversionXL

While software developers prefer more prescriptive methods, like Scrum , marketers borrow heavily from the Kanban framework. To operate as a pure Scrum marketing team, marketers would need to timebox their to-do list and commit to getting a specific cluster of tasks out the door after 2–4 weeks of active work. Image source ).

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

The Next Web

Maybe you are tasked with managing cross-functional teams, with a creative objective grounded in digital and tech. Partner with champions. That is who you want to partner with. Talking scrum to creative won’t work as well as to developers. If I have just described you and your predicament, read on.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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

Mucker Lab

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners.

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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. Will you be taking on partners or even outsourced help? Things are even more complicated if you are planning on partnering up with someone else.

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Developing Strong Product Owners

SVPG

I have always been a big believer in the old adage that “people join a company but leave a manager.” However, I encourage each manager to adjust the importance ratings depending on your particular culture, industry, team and product, and also on the level of position (e.g.