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

Up and Running

They quickly focused their attention on supermarkets—specifically, the ways that supermarkets study customer behavior in order to create better shopping experiences. If you’re looking for a solution to control the rate at which you produce a product, consider aligning your inventory levels with your customer’s actual consumption.

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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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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. 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.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. I tend to be binary and look at companies as those that have customers and those that don’t.

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Should Your Startup Be an Agile Company

Women Entrepreneurs Can

As informed by agile software development , some of the basic ideas behind running a startup the agile way include: Welcoming change. The first factor when deciding how agile your startup should be is what kind of a company it is, in which industry it is and what kind of a product or service you will be offering to your customers.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. Our model at Casual Corp.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs.