crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The biggest trend in marketing in 2016 has been the idea of “agile marketing.” In a survey conducted by Workfront and Marketing Profs, roughly 30% of marketers are already using an agile methodology in their departments. Although undeniably useful, Scrum was originally created for software development.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2016

This helps the groups involved to improve their productivity while allowing them to enhance creativity and come up with unique solutions. Scrum methodology. Scrum was developed for the software world since it is all about adapting to altering parameters and productivity. It encourages team work.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

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. Harnessing change to improve product. Why it Works For Us.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 12, 2012

I continue to be fascinated with the changing art of product management. I had never tried a spontaneous scrum like this before and it was great fun. This week, I taught a class at Intelligent.ly on the topic. Intelligent.ly

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Agile marketing may not be a phrase you hear often, but it’s becoming increasingly popular and important. Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. Simple to understand.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

The traditional advantages of small businesses over corporations are personalized service and an inventory of niche products tailored to their local market. If SMBs don’t also embrace and maximize data, these large companies could steal their client base and market share. This also creates a place for hosting all of your data.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Those countries relying on agriculture or oil production tend to have high unemployment rates and wide skills gaps. Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. Project/ Product Management. Scrum, Agile, Product Management.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2020

All departments are being streamlined down and designed to be the most productive levels of themselves. We have over 1,000+ different productivity tools that can optimize every task from HR to the marketing department. You therefore have to have a good BI tool in order to make the right decisions in your marketing efforts. .

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

In our market today, successful teams are those that adapt, grow, and thrive in the rapidly changing tech scape. Scrum is the most popular Agile methodology, with Jira, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Project, being the most popular tool to be used in Agile project management. Agile is here to stay. Adapting to scale. Team Management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2020

by Andrea Fryrear, author of “ Mastering Marketing Agility “ The profound transformations in the world over the past 3 months have led to a radical and rapid fire transformation of consumers’ preferences and needs. That means in order to maintain a connection, marketers have to get to know their customers all over again.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Society is changing and so is its demand and supply for new products and services. Being a digital marketing company, our world is being constantly changed by the changes happening in the world of the internet. I started a global branding and digital marketing firm 19 years ago. Thanks to Michelle Devani, lovedevan ! #5-

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

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. But, over the years I’ve realized that the toughest problem - the one that matters most and was consistently the most challenging - was figuring out what the product backlog should be.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

The business development team needs to see the customer feedback they deliver make it back into the product, and the tech team needs to see reasonable requests to develop new features without a constant stream of changing direction. At Red Branch, we stress that employees’ skills have distinct market values. . - Phil Chen , Givit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. TheLadders is an eight-year-old company based out of New York City focusing on the $100k+ employment market (both jobseekers and recruiters).

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Putting the product/service on the market early. Adding to product/service in small, frequent iterations. The first factor when deciding how agile your startup should be is what kind of a company it is, in which industry it is and what kind of a product or service you will be offering to your customers. How Big Are You?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Marketing , a multi-channel lifestyle agency specializing in experiential and promotional services. Paint them a picture of what you want – the user experience, how the interface should feel, what problem the backend needs to solve, what intuitive behaviors the product should engender.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To help you prep, I’ve collated a list of tools—for both web and mobile devices—that have helped me and others get things done, save time, and work more productively. Marketing tools. With drag-and-drop features, dozens of free templates, and the ability to send drip email campaigns, this tool with revolutionize your marketing.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

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. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

The term "pivot" is probably one of the most overused and abused terms in today's product teams. from Scrum to Kanban), or a "pivot" of a dedicated product team to work on something else (I guess this is supposed to make the team feel better about the new assignment, because pivots are something cool teams do). Vision Pivots.

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SVPG

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

This is when a team works for several months on a project with the intention of pushing it live in one big product creation event. Scrum teams can actually be forced into Big Bang releases too. Sometimes marketing wants to do a big launch event so they think nobody can see it until they’re ready. Why is this a problem?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. No more, no less.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2016

6 Tools We Use at Typeform to Amplify Our Marketing Productivity written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Working in marketing can be very demanding. Luckily, we live in a time where productivity hacks are easy to find. Joanne Torres is an online & outreach marketer at Typeform.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s a great example of how product features can drive organic traffic. In fact, new product features are the most underrated driver of SEO growth for large sites. movies, songs, products, profiles, etc.). For inventory-driven sites, the website is a big part of the product. I call the later type “inventory driven.”.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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. Do you have a spec?

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

I have written recently about how product teams do product discovery in parallel with product delivery. I have also written about how teams sometimes like to time-box their product discovery work. Nearly all product teams today do continuous build. What about product discovery?

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy. Development teams working with these unknowns will often introduce "spikes" into the product backlog to complete discovery work and remove risks. Email This BlogThis!

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Tom Nora Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development. I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. While working on a release, we made sure we are building their skills in all possible roles (Dev, QA, Product Owner, Technical writers etc.).

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2011

You can pay at or above market rate, which is already pretty high right now. They're not going to be overly managed by a million product managers, project managers, etc., They'll be able to contribute to product ideas, not just execute yours. You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc).

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MARCH 10, 2016

For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach. These people are there to help the broader team – especially engineers, QA, product managers and product designers – to learn the methods and mindset involved in moving to Agile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product.

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SVPG

JUNE 5, 2015

NOTE: This article is a narrative version of a talk I’ve given for developers at the Craft Conference and for product managers and designers at Mind The Product. In this article I’d like to discuss the root causes of so many product failures. This is usually where Agile finally enters the picture.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

The competitive, oversaturated market pushes companies to seek better ways to manage workload and optimize the working process to strive for continuous improvement and client satisfaction. It is executed through practices of Kanban , Scrum, XP. Productivity may be a concern if you are working on multiple tasks simultaneously.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. about what their function needs to do to fully support the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. And what are some of the challenges they're facing with the product right now? The team learned that they didn’t need to build a better product.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

Perhaps offer some specific “high flying” ideas and examples applicable right away to companies in slower growth industries and markets?" Speed of product development, of brand-building, of customer acquisition, of team-building and talent aggregation. Most companies in high flying industries raise money (and a lot of it!)

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