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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures). There are hundreds of paragraphs I could write about all of the amazing things Rally Software has done for the Boulder Startup Community and for the extended city of Boulder.

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Developing Strong Product Owners

SVPG

Scrum) and understand his critical role in creating and managing the backlog of work? Do they feel like they have a true partner in product that is genuinely committed to their business success? Community Management (5) - What is the product owner’s skills in community management and gentle deployment techniques?

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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

It's also challenging to attract and retain a loyal community of customers and users. A quick note, while I primarily talk about co-founders, the same principals should also be applied to interacting with all early employees as you really are partners on the mission to build a great product. Never Minimize the Value of Your Co-Founder.

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Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

ConversionXL

For example, Kanban and Scrum are two popular agile project management rituals. Look at communities where your audience spends time. We partnered with the corporate social media team to coordinate responses in a dedicated Slack channel and incorporated the individual responses into an FAQ for the team to use going forward.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. However, the Mac community was also very vocal, with passionate fans of their platform, and is also important to note that this community had very little love for Microsoft.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. Kind of the model that Game Fit sites have where you partner up with somebody and you support each other as you try and do one more lap or push up. Well I appreciate that.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.