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Process Police

SVPG

Readers of my book and articles know how much I value a strong project manager. I’ve written earlier about the positive impact to velocity a great project manager can have (see [link] and [link]. However, occasionally I run into teams where they have a very different type of project manager.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Project/ Product Management.

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Agile Marketing: How to Implement Scrum for Digital Marketing

ConversionXL

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. Before we dive into the marketing applications, however, let’s briefly cover what scrum is and how it came to be. sourced from the Scrum Guide.

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Dual-Track Scrum

SVPG

Which is why I'm a big advocate for what is sometimes referred to as Dual-Track Scrum. Jeff Patton first shared with me the term "Dual-Track Scrum" and I prefer this term because it better captures the parallel nature of Discovery and Delivery. Lean UX and Dual-Track Scrum are made for each other.

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[Review] Social Marketology

YoungUpstarts

Social media marketing is probably the most heavily written management topic on the planet. Unfortunately, many books, articles, blogs and podcasts on social media focus too heavily on the “feel good” factor of success stories. These tend to be more inspirational than instructional.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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

Up and Running

Email management tools. Want an affordable CRM tool to manage your contacts, deals, projects, and messages? Use it to manage the hiring process, to keep track of investment and fundraising projects, to manage deals, and much more. Project management tools. LastPass Password Manager. Boomerang for Gmail.