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

Up and Running

In a recent blog post, Kanbanize CEO, Dimitar Karaivanov, effectively summarizes the spirit of kanban: “One of the main principles … is the goal of eliminating bottlenecks by imposing realistic limits on how much work is in progress, how much work is requested, and how much work is held off on the back burner.

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In a tech startup, how to improve the quality of your product

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Since my suggestions were well received, I thought I would try to capture them in a blog post. Planning Poker is a technique recommended as part of the broader SCRUM software development framework. If you are not using SCRUM, I highly recommend using it as your baseline. Development. Internal product demos.

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Escaping the Design Trap in Agile Marketing

crowdSPRING Blog

As Marketer Gizmo explains : When they hear the phrase “agile marketing,” most people think of the Scrum methodology. Featuring sprints, daily standup meetings, and a public “to-do” list known as the Backlog, Scrum is one of the most popular frameworks for implementing departmental agility.

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Agile Marketing: How to Implement Scrum for Digital Marketing

ConversionXL

Before we dive into the marketing applications, however, let’s briefly cover what scrum is and how it came to be. An Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development. Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.” sourced from the Scrum Guide. Basics of Scrum Framework. Simple to understand.

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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. XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager".

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[Review] Social Marketology

YoungUpstarts

Unfortunately, many books, articles, blogs and podcasts on social media focus too heavily on the “feel good” factor of success stories. Critical roles include a director, community manager, blog editor, blogger(s), channel specialists, SEO specialists, photographers/videographers, producers, and analytics specialist.

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

ConversionXL

blog posts) compared to sites that scale with inventory (e.g., If you’ve never heard the term scrum or agile before, you’re behind. New features need to be written in user stories to fit the scrum framework. The post How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts) appeared first on CXL.

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