YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

From different software systems to overall philosophies, there are many ways that business strategies can inform the way you run your company. Use OKR software to Your Advantage. Using SOM is perfect for system designers who’re interested in having customization of the interface, form factor, and other electronic components.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 12, 2016

Book Short: Scrum ptious . I just finished reading Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time , by Jeff Sutherland and JJ Sutherland. This reading was in anticipation of an Agile Facilitation training my executive team and I are going through next week, as part of Return Path’s Agile Everywhere initiative.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The biggest trend in marketing in 2016 has been the idea of “agile marketing.” In a survey conducted by Workfront and Marketing Profs, roughly 30% of marketers are already using an agile methodology in their departments. Although undeniably useful, Scrum was originally created for software development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully. Enter Jims post.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

They quickly focused their attention on supermarkets—specifically, the ways that supermarkets study customer behavior in order to create better shopping experiences. If you’re looking for a solution to control the rate at which you produce a product, consider aligning your inventory levels with your customer’s actual consumption.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

These days, one of the decisions that startup owners make (or at least should think about making) is whether to be an agile company from the very start, to try to adopt it later or to do things the more traditional way. Most people are already familiar with agile principles to some extent, but just in case let’s go over the basics.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. More to come.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

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. Simple to understand.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

They didn't feel they had visibility into timelines and costs for development of their software. Investors and early customers were becoming worried about the ability of the founder to deliver. Instead, what they had was a contract that promised Agile Software Development with Rapid Iterations and an incredibly vague list of features.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. Now entering our third year with Agile we’re continually trying to improve the efficiency, productivity and velocity of the various teams. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Agile Scrum daily meetings have become a commonplace solution for development teams to hit and exceed targets. One Teams app in particular can be a godsend to teams forced into adopting remote work as standard and still maintain a working scrum methodology. ScrumGenius.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) Can you make a build in one step? Youd better.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

So the product manager winds up actually having to use the software, by hand, updating the spec and helping create a new test plan. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

In return, customers might first get to Amazon through an off-site search, then buy the product there. what customers are doing); Qualitative research (i.e. speaking to customers); Customer requests; Strategically, to attack a market. Ask your customers. But what if the high-potential feature isn’t obvious?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The traditional buyer’s funnel relies on linear decision-making, assuming that an audience will move neatly to become a prospect, then customer. Keep in mind, however, that customers won’t necessarily go through these stages in order. The Agile Coach includes a mix of long-form articles, vidoes, and tutorials.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Customers especially think they have “requirements” but really they’re just a hypothesis on what might solve some probably unstated problem. The old Waterfall theory of software had it essentially backwards. It really is true that form and function are completely intertwined.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

It's challenging to build, design and deploy software. It's also challenging to attract and retain a loyal community of customers and users. Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline. Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Rather than use boring section headers, I thought Id just quote from actual customers, in their own words. Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Having early customers means balancing the needs of your existing customers with the desire to find new ones. The advantages of cross-functional teams are well documented, and for a thorough treatment I recommend the theory in the second half of Agile Software Development with Scrum.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. They also chat about recent changes at Zappos, and the CFO of Palo Alto Software Trevor Betenson talks about human resources and conflict resolution. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Scrum.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams. The rest are providing central services like marketing, customer care and localization (20%) or others like HR, PR, Finance, Business Analytics and teams that maintain simple services for persistence of games.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything.

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SVPG

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Nothing wrong with that if they just realized that this prepared them only for the Agile rituals the product owner has to perform, but for many, that’s not what happened. Or whatever software management system their team is using. For many product owners, they actually thought this meant they were trained as product managers.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. Customer Relationship Management. great web customer acquisition tutorials. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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