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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

The differences between how agility manifests in a marketing team vs. a software team can be striking. While software developers prefer more prescriptive methods, like Scrum , marketers borrow heavily from the Kanban framework. There are other differences. Image source ). Image source ). What will I do today?

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. I spoke with Thatcher Bell , Managing Partner, CoVenture.

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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. We weren’t the first investor in Rally. Ryan quickly raised about $400k of friends and family money. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Should Your Startup Be an Agile Company

Women Entrepreneurs Can

As informed by agile software development , some of the basic ideas behind running a startup the agile way include: Welcoming change. 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. Improved adaptability.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Product owners and technical managers also need to interpret this scenario properly. Technology leadership need to consider build/buy/partner options.

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