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

Up and Running

During this consequential decade, in its search to improve processes, Toyota began looking for inspiration beyond the automotive industry. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. Finally, let’s take a look at the increasingly popular problem-solving method—especially in the technology sector—known as scrum.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

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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.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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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. and business transformation.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

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Quora Spaces is already gaining traction in organic search. The feature also has to address a need that people are searching for. In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. People search with queries.

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

Up and Running

Trello also maintains a super creative blog that will show you how you might use their product: to take the stress out of the holiday season, to plan an office party, to search for a job, and to plan a meal. At Palo Alto Software, we use it to manage our editorial calendar and the web development queue.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better. Expo SF (May.