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5 Types Of Business Strategies To Consider Before Opening Up Shop

YoungUpstarts

One of the major benefits of using a SOM approach is that product development costs are drastically decreased and technical risk is also reduced. If you’re in software development, you’ve likely heard of the Scrum method. Best of all, Scrum helps teams remain agile by encouraging flexibility in your workflow.

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Where Does Your Software Company Go From Here?

ReadWriteStart

If you’re not already, adopt an agile methodology not only for software development, but also for communication improvements. And though there’s no question that growth is a crucial part of a software company’s success, it shouldn’t be viewed as the only driving factor for your future actions.

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Rally Acquires AgileZen

Feld Thoughts

Today, Rally Software – a company I’ve been an investor in since 2003 – announced that they have acquired AgileZen. If you are an Agile software development shop, or follow ALM, Rally just added Kanban to the mix. Tags: My Investments acquisition agile agilezen kanban rally.

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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. In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. This methodology improved on waterfall by building software iteratively and involving the customer. With Agile you could end up satisfying every feature a customer asked for and still go out of business.

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Q&A With The Founders Of AgileZen

Feld Thoughts

As I’ve written in the past, I encourage companies I’m an investor in to continually explore small acquisitions when entrepreneurs have created something that is on their roadmap. AgileZen was one such company and the acquisition has been a successful one for everyone. Why did you start AgileZen ?

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From 160 Hours to 10: A Tale of Agile Business Practices

Software By Rob

Agile Development, meet Agile Business. But the number one question you need to think about when going after this Agile Business approach: At what point is it worth spending the time to truly automate this? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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