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12 ways to get your business development and tech teams on the same page

The Next Web

Systems such as Scrum can help separate departments communicate effectively, and that is an absolute necessity. Tech teams also need to understand that without business development, there is no revenue to pay their salaries. . - Maren Hogan , Red Branch Media. Adjust the Workflow. Daniel Wesley, Creditloan.com. Alex Friedman , Ruckus.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Can an established organization with a recognized brand, proven revenue stream and an employee count in the hundreds or thousands embrace these principles? Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams. The role of scrum master has become less relevant as each team member owns their own accountability.

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Factors in Structuring a Product Organization

SVPG

You see it when a Scrum team is frustrated because they have multiple product owners to deal with, or when product managers have to constantly fight for resources that keep disappearing. The key is not to drive the product structure around the engineering teams, but rather to work together with engineering to move together into alignment.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence. No more, no less. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid.

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My new book: Farm Don’t Hunt

Guy Nirpaz

It is written in similar style to the Scrum book I’ve used to learn how to become a successful engineering leader. This book is based on the Scrum book that impacted my life significantly as an engineer. The first establishes the farming metaphor for recurring revenue businesses, and what it means to “farm” your customers.

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The Surprising Ways a Distributed Team Can Help Your Company Succeed

crowdSPRING Blog

But it’s not just about saving money and increasing revenues. Luckily, we have found a way to make sure no team member has to work unnatural hours for our daily scrums. The lesson that we can learn from the Ctrip study demonstrates that employees are more intrinsically motivated than we think. There is however, much more.

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6 Tools We Use at Typeform to Amplify Our Marketing Productivity

Duct Tape Marketing

KPIs, meetings, brainstorming sessions, monthly revenue, never-ending checklists… the list goes on. Perhaps SCRUM methodologies work best for you, or maybe you’re perfectly fine with a good ol’ checklist. 6 Tools We Use at Typeform to Amplify Our Marketing Productivity written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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