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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

From early time-sharing systems on rented mainframe terminals to recent public cloud multichannel solutions, I’ve observed that the real leverage points and challenges are the people, not the technology. Before I wrote my first book I spent a few weeks at a University of Michigan seminar on lean product development.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

The traditional advantages of small businesses over corporations are personalized service and an inventory of niche products tailored to their local market. Cloud storage is the future of data warehousing, but not everyone has made the switch yet. SMBs falsely assume that custom analytics platforms and data science is too complicated.

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Are Agile Innovation Methods Right for Your Team?

The Startup Magazine

When developing agile innovation methods for your team, consider the following: Are the requirements of the product or project uncertain? — Agile methods work well when the requirements are uncertain. Agile provides tools such as prototyping and feedback (both are essential) for a successful and efficient product or project development.

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology Will Affect Their Business Tomorrow

Hearpreneur

Society is changing and so is its demand and supply for new products and services. First, I encourage business owners to create resources on your website or social network feeds for clients to better understand the products that are provided. Thanks to Paul Lewis, Scrum Explainer ! #10- 8- Reduce our cost. Photo credit: CJ Xia.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.

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Two Business Tools That Boost Your Marketing Efforts 

YoungUpstarts

All departments are being streamlined down and designed to be the most productive levels of themselves. We have over 1,000+ different productivity tools that can optimize every task from HR to the marketing department. Creating content with Adobe Cloud. Content is King” is what Bill Gates famously said in an essay from 1996.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next. But, over the years I’ve realized that the toughest problem - the one that matters most and was consistently the most challenging - was figuring out what the product backlog should be.

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