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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology Will Affect Their Business Tomorrow

Hearpreneur

It’s becoming increasingly important for every business to have at least basic technology to run daily operations in the current day society. With new technology emerging, we can only imagine the changes it will bring along to the business platform. Technology makes it easier to connect with people all over the world.

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

YoungUpstarts

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. I’ve spent my career doing large-scale high impact technology management for major US institutions.

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

YoungUpstarts

In reality, embracing the digital transformation with custom solutions is now more affordable, analytics is easier and cloud technologies mean more options when faced with limited shelf space. Cloud storage is the future of data warehousing, but not everyone has made the switch yet. Enterprise Apps.

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Are Agile Innovation Methods Right for Your Team?

The Startup Magazine

This means the holding of daily scrum meetings and the ability of all involved employees to talk about barriers and discuss status, as well as input from the product owner. How Cloud Call Centers Can Help. Cloud call centers are more flexible, agile and cost-efficient than traditional models. Are your teams co-located? —

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

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

If an implementation cant easily be estimated by a development team, if there is a unique technical challenge that needs discovery, if there is a new technology involved, or if a technology is being used in a new way then I place them in the "architecture and prototyping" quadrant. cloud computing. (4). Strategic Technology.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. No more, no less.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. When its receding, we rescope. Do you have a spec?