Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As a business and entrepreneur advisor, I have no trouble getting owners and managers to agree that change is happening faster and faster in the consumer and technology world, requiring them to keep their business more agile , just to keep up. The challenge is that too many are confused on what that means for them, and what it takes to make their business competitively agile. Crisis-driven agility is not enough today. business agility disruptive change Leo Tilman

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It is no surprise that Agile as a revolution of the software development and project management world is still picking up its pace. This has caused a need for Agile professionals within the IT sector who understand the principles and methodology behind this concepts of Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. How are Scrum and Agile Causing a Huge Impact? Thanks to Scrum, and pardon the pun, but individuals are becoming much more agile.

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Our Own Start-up

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The goal of agile project management is to produce shorter development cycles and more frequent product releases than traditional waterfall project management. Growth Strategies Agile Project Management agile project management methodology goal of agile project management how agile methodology works how agile works Project Management project management methodology

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Marketing pioneer Jim Ewel has the answer in three words: “With Agile marketing.”. As Ewel says, “Agile marketing teams can think on their feet, pivot at a moment’s notice, and ride a continuous wave of new ideas — allowing businesses to win in a post-pandemic world.”.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2019

Project management is one dynamic field that is perpetually morphing. Today, the application of Scaled Agile framework, Kansan, as well as Scrum has ensured improved productivity in software development in line with world-class project management techniques. Agile and Scrum are the best practices that have continued to transform work processes across different sectors and platforms in multiple industries across the globe. So Why Agile and Scrum certification?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

If you keep up with the news on project management and business strategy, you’ve probably come across the buzzword “agile” more than a few times. You may have also noticed that agile methodology — which was once thought to be only for software developers — is now being used just about everywhere, from construction to marketing, human resources, manufacturing, and even wedding planning. But what does it mean to be agile and do agile as a business unit?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. Here are some key strategies to maximize the agility required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility. An agile business doesn’t wait for their current product line to fail, before planning some enhancements. It all starts with agile leadership.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Agile, as the name suggests, is modeled with adaptability in mind. Agile project management and team leadership are best showcased by leading a team of developers in completing software development projects. Agile can also be applied across numerous other industries as an effective project management approach. Agile At A Glance. Agile is here to stay. Advantages of Agile Management. How to Lead a Team of Developers the Agile Way.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2015

Steve Denning, one of the leading business thinkers pushing the business world to abandon the outdated idea of maximising shareholder value has published an interesting article on Forbes titled Why do managers hate agile? That immediately made me think of my first experiences with agile as a board member of software and web startups shifting away from waterfall development to agile to improve productivity. Agile methods are also more attractive to the best employees.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. At the time it was an idea in Ryan Martens brain; today it is a public company valued around $600 million , employing around 400 people, and pacing the world of agile software development.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the years, I’ve written a lot about the Agile methodology on this blog. For those of you who are regular readers, you may remember a post I wrote about our Agile Everywhere initiative — where all Return Path teams were tasked with implementing agile practices. A little over a year later, I want to update you on our agile journey–where we are now and how we got there. weren’t at all familiar with agile practices. Resident agile experts.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. How should a growth company manage their budget? So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. Entrepreneur Jeff Magnusson provides a sample agile budgeting workbook. This agile approach is not restricted to small startups.

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The Next Web

JULY 10, 2015

The goal of agile programming is to provide early and continuous delivery of valuable software. But it’s not so easy to implement methodologies that can deliver on the agile promise, and the blame typically lands on people: they’re just not the tech elite. Agile is an iterative software development methodology, as opposed to the more linear traditional methods. Agile is more of a mindset than a ruleset, so it can… This story continues at The Next Web.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2017

This challenge has put immense pressure on CIOs to not only manage ever-growing data volumes, sources, and types, but to also support more and more data users as well as new and increasingly complex use cases. If companies are to thrive in a data-driven economy, they can’t afford to be handcuffed to ‘old’ technologies; they need the flexibility and agility to move at a moment’s notice to the latest market innovations. How can your company meet the agility imperative?

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ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2020

Each spring, the annual State of Agile Marketing Report sheds light on how Agile ways of working are being adopted within marketing. This year, for the first time in the report’s three-year history, Agile techniques overtook those maintaining traditional processes. Those who know Agile as a buzzword will likely tell you it’s a way for teams to go faster. But Agile is about more than just speed. Agile for developers is not Agile for marketers.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Developing successful agile innovation methods can drive companies to great new heights. Then implementing agile innovation methods should be top on your list of to-dos. Taking an agile approach to project management means taking large tasks and splitting them into smaller tasks, as well as finding ways to be more innovative. So, how do you determine if agile innovation methods are right for your company? Are Agile Innovation Methods Right for Your Team?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 12, 2010

Over time at my first startup our developers encouraged us to move to Agile development. So when I read my post it sounded to me more like a new philosophy for “The Agile Board,&# so I put that as my subtitle. Nivi (from VentureHacks ) said it best: “Agile is about short feedback loops. An agile board would change it board-level plan more quickly than a board that only adjusts the plan at regular board meetings.&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2012

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. These volatile markets are already creating unexpected opportunities and risks – you must be alert and agile enough to spot them and adapt quickly to survive and prosper. Here are the key aspects of agility requiring focus: Eliminating bureaucracy. Rotating good people to new roles keep both them and their new roles agile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2011

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. These volatile markets are already creating unexpected opportunities and risks – you must be alert and agile enough to spot them and adapt quickly to survive and prosper. Here are the key aspects of agility requiring focus: Eliminating bureaucracy. Rotating good people to new roles keep both them and their new roles agile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2014

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. Here are some key elements of agility that are required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility. An agile business doesn’t wait for their current product line to fail, before planning some enhancements. It all starts with agile leadership.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 8, 2020

Chief amongst these mistakes is the belief that your company can maintain a sluggish, sordid presence on popular platforms instead of needing an agile, fresh-faced approach. Do you have an agile social media policy? Perhaps the best way to determine if you have an agile social media policy is to ask yourself whether you spend most of your time on Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms reacting to errors instead of creating opportunities that your brand can exploit.

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Transformify - Recruiting

JANUARY 6, 2021

To become more agile in the market, a flexible employee structure is a huge advantage. That is why we will review 3 software solutions that can help you hire and manage your remote workers and freelancers Transfomify , Zoho and SAP Fieldglass. Worker profile management software.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Though agile is all about process and that’s where much of our attention has gone, it’s time we shifted out focus on people and interactions. In his new book “ People Over Process: Leadership for Agility “, technology expert Michael K. Levine was an early proponent of agile and is a veteran of systems change and technology management. It’s a new way of thinking about agile that builds in agile’s tenets and takes them to a new level.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Network management is a controlled process of administering and overall managing a company’s computer networks. It involves analyzing, checking performance, providing networks, and maintaining top-notch services through network management software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

A big part of adopting Lean Startup in an established company involves fundamentally shifting the way organizations manage people and ideas. Mark Raheja, founding partner at August , a consultancy focused on organizational development, will be speaking as part of the enterprise learning track at Lean Startup Week about agility at scale. In thinking about the future of corporate agility and management, what modern practices are most vital to today’s leaders?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2017

by Dan McCarthy, event manager for Venueseeker. Business intelligence (BI) is the gateway for achieving greater agility. Agility in this sense means the flexibility to make more informed decisions based on a diverse array of data outlining consumer patterns and purchasing behavior. Risk management – Does the data take into consideration any potential risks or regulatory guidelines?

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SVPG

DECEMBER 15, 2012

The past several articles have discussed the nature of Continuous Discovery and Dual-Track Agile. In this article I'd like to discuss another dimension of working effectively in an Agile environment, which is how we manage commitments. In most Agile teams, when you mention commitments (like knowing what you're going to launch and when it will happen), you get reactions ranging from squirming to denial. The project managers track these commitments and dependencies.

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SVPG

AUGUST 21, 2013

Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. I thought - incorrectly it turns out - that this would be a temporary issue, while the Agile community gained experience, especially with commercial product companies. So it''s no wonder that so many Agile trainers are bewildered by commercial product companies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

AgileFall is an ironic term for program management where you try to be agile and lean, but you keep using waterfall development techniques. I just sat through my a project management meeting where I saw AgileFall happen first-hand. We’re helping them convert one of the critical product lines inside an existing division from a traditional waterfall project management process into Lean. This product line has 15 project managers overseeing 60 projects.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2010

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. But volatile markets do create unexpected opportunities – if you are alert and agile enough to spot them and adapt quickly. Here are the key attributes of agility to optimize in your business: Bureaucracy eliminated. Rotating good people to new roles keep both them and their new roles agile.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. I caught my breath and thought about it for a minute and said, “How about I go talk to the new training manager. Manager: “Sorry man we outsourced your job, I guess this was already in the works before I hired you.

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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. An Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development. According to the Scrum Guide , the Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

Thirteen years later, Kinsman is a veteran of the industry and a thought leader advocating in Forbes for an agile approach. The agile strategy is all about brand flexibility. This type of rigorous, critical quality-control allows your brand to be agile. Agility stems from recognizing your demographics’ ever-evolving culture and buying preferences, and adapting. The agile strategy to branding and marketing is Kinsman’s answer to uncertainty.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The biggest trend in marketing in 2016 has been the idea of “agile marketing.” ” Workfront, a project management solution provider, defines it as : A tactical marketing approach in which teams identify and focus their collective efforts on high value projects, complete those projects cooperatively, measure their impact and then continuously and incrementally improve the results over time. Agile marketing isn’t going anywhere, and with good reason.

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Grasshopper Herder

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Lean Enterprise Lean Startups Management Managing Entrepreneurship agile agile marketing lean enterprise lean startup in the enterprise leanux waterfall More enterprise scale companies are drinking the lean Kool Aid and starting to implement Lean Startup. In doing so, they are failing at the most basic level.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

To an entrepreneur or small business owner, achieving a project management certification may seem unnecessary. Project management is actually not that simple. Here we look at 5 of the most popular project management certifications, covering the reasons as to why they might be relevant and a thumbnail of the content. PRINCE2 is the world’s most widely adopted project management method. Read 3 chapters from Managing Successful Projects using PRINCE2 (2017). Agile.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Software project managers have it rough: from fulfilling the interests of stakeholders with limited resources and time, constantly-updating technologies – it seems like a never-ending battle. To keep yourself from drowning in the project management swamps of despair, here are several tips for making sure your team and organization is as efficient as possible. BMC Helix delivers cognitive service management with a variety of services that can help you in more ways than one.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 31, 2020

The Coronavirus pandemic has underlined the importance of being agile in the world of business. Moving forward, it’s wise to keep an eye on new developments and look for solutions and inventions that could increase agility and flexibility, as well as enhancing customer experience and boosting sales. Modern-day businesses have to be adaptable and agile to survive in an ever-changing landscape. HR Management

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. Each horizon requires different focus, different management, different tools and different goals. To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Management in this Horizon 1 works by building repeatable and scalable processes, procedures, incentives and KPI’s to execute and measure the business model.

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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. Agile 101. Most people are already familiar with agile principles to some extent, but just in case let’s go over the basics. As informed by agile software development , some of the basic ideas behind running a startup the agile way include: Welcoming change.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2017

You can uncover how to become one of those fully-trained and certified Agile (and its popular Scrum framework) masters with this Agile and Scrum Project Management Certification Bundle. Right now, grab this high-level instruction at just $29 from TNW Deals. Entrepreneur Life Hacks Offers Tools & Skills

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The organizations that do manage to keep up are further driving change by redefining the technology landscape around their platforms, causing the rest to fall even further behind. Most large organizations are aware that they need to undergo digital transforms, and are adopting new software delivery practices such as Agile and DevOps. But after founding the company, I realized that I need to take a similarly disciplined approach to learning leadership and management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. Here are some key strategies to maximize the agility required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility. An agile business doesn’t wait for their current product line to fail, before planning some enhancements. It all starts with agile leadership.

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