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

Up and Running

During this consequential decade, in its search to improve processes, Toyota began looking for inspiration beyond the automotive industry. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. Finally, let’s take a look at the increasingly popular problem-solving method—especially in the technology sector—known as scrum.

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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. Monthly brand voice reviews should also be conducted.

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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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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective. Author and Stanford professor Steve Blank defines a startup as “an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”

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

Up and Running

Trello also maintains a super creative blog that will show you how you might use their product: to take the stress out of the holiday season, to plan an office party, to search for a job, and to plan a meal. AdBlock gets rid of everything—Google ads, banner ads on websites, YouTube video ads, you name it. Google Alerts.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

Quora Spaces is already gaining traction in organic search. The feature also has to address a need that people are searching for. In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. People search with queries.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

The innovation function is dedicated to iterative search through experimentation. To support the three Cs, ING has also developed their own iterative practice named PACE. The pipeline starts by dividing your business into two distinct functions: innovation and execution. The innovation motto is “Fail fast.”

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