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Why Successful Product Management Involves More Than Spectacular Specs

YoungUpstarts

Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Development teams must build a muscle for reliable estimation and delivery, whether through Scrum velocity metrics or their own approach.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Start by identifying every method you currently have of collecting information, including marketing data, website metrics, feedback collection and analysis procedures. Artificial intelligence, data science, and other solutions work best when applied to a specific problem.

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

YoungUpstarts

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. Leaders can use the following metrics to measure team health. Agile is here to stay. Cycle time of tasks. Number of accepted points per contributor. Delivery date shifts.

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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. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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[Review] Social Marketology

YoungUpstarts

Let me now highlight some of the book’s salient concepts: Managing the Team : Similar to “herding cats”, social media units can be managed like “scrum teams” where work is broken into small chunks with specific tasks assigned and monitored daily.

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Using independent teams to scale a small company: A look at how games company Wooga works

The Next Web

Further feature development does not slow down the development process but as extra information is derived from live metrics, a/b testing becomes possible and the whole game needs to be operated. Teams decide on their own how to do things, although they usually blend in elements of Scrum and/or Kanban. Knowledge sharing.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

dalelarson : "Metrics are people, too." leanstartup ericnsantos : #w2e #leanstartup Metrics should be Actionable, Accessible and Auditable. Metrics are a key questions startups face. Metrics are people too" is a reminder I constantly needed when I was a manager. ericries s talk on Lean Startups absolutely fantastic.