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Does Scrum Apply To All Types Of Projects?

The Startup Magazine

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. Scrum is a lightweight agile process framework used primarily for managing software development. Here are the scrum components: Roles: Team, Product owner, Scrum Master and Team.

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Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We scoff at their inability to innovate and for prioritizing shareholders over customers, but still we quiver in fear. What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? Dozens of people on Answers.OnStartups ask about it so I know I'm not alone.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits."

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. I dont think so.

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Agile Marketing: How to Implement Scrum for Digital Marketing

ConversionXL

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.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers. Hes working harder than ever, and so is his team. But they are pushing for the things that matter to customers - features. They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. I thought Id share a little bit about his story.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. one more thought, where were the code reviews? October 6, 2008 12:17 AM r& said.