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

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Kaizen: a way to improve all functions and all employees. All it takes is one observant employee to get the ball rolling, and soon a small group of hand-picked team members convenes to brainstorm—and eventually trial—new approaches to old problems. See Also: How to Recognize and Put a Stop to Employee Burnout. Then Lead Them.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Thats pretty clear.

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Managing a remote team? We've got the right project management techniques for you

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GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics calculates that this saving for each half-time remote employee could reach $11,000 per year. It demands a level of employee management and project management skills beyond regular. 1- Scrum: Scrum is an agile project management methodology with a focus on delivering products as fast as possible.

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

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AdBlock gets rid of everything—Google ads, banner ads on websites, YouTube video ads, you name it. The only things you’ll ever need to pay for are the tools that allow you to pay your employees directly, and the ability to accept credit cards online. Take a look at Palo Alto Software employee profiles: Noah Parsons and Josh Cochrane.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

To support the three Cs, ING has also developed their own iterative practice named PACE. The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. Second, don’t simply hire your buddies.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

7:01) The importance of both customer and employee experience, brand building, and pivoting to anticipate the new normal that's coming. (9:33) 18:21) Carl on optimism and what he did as head of stores at Home Depot post-Katrina to take care of customers and employees, including selling products out of the back of a truck via an IOU system.

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Episode 13: How to Solve Problems in Your Business, Human Resources, and #Zappos | The Bcast

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In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Scrum. Atlassian: How to Build a Kick-Ass Agile Team. Forbes: Scrum is a Major Management Discovery . Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Kanban .

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