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

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

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. Internal product demos. In doubt, implement SCRUM as closely as soon you can for a good baseline. Development.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams. Demos have become our design reviews.” The most effective way we’ve found to mitigate this is by holding live, weekly demos of working (unfinished) code to which these business owners are invited.

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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

They start by demoing their skills on my project at no cost for 1-2 days. Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore. I’m looking for suggestions on how to scale this using people in europe without adding too many “middle men” 1. Tom Nora.

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

ConversionXL

Let’s jump on a call for a demo and maybe we can talk about pricing at the end.” And after some number of opens, clicks, and visits, we’d go in for the hard sale—a phone call from a sales rep, an office visit to provide a demo, and some kind of “buy now or else” discount on pricing. Straight-forward, logical, easy to track.

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7 Account-Based Marketing Examples and Lessons

ConversionXL

Do this by creating Scrum-style squads with individual contributors from each department working together on specified accounts. Successfully qualified leads will be handed-off to the AE (along with any information to deliver a seamless experience for the prospect) when a demo is booked.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Wille (2010-06-20) # I would say that the "User Story" template format of writing requirements pushed by the Scrum Agile methodology is the way to go, as it chunks functionality in a common, easily overviewable format with a common language. enjoy the process ;-) rjg (2010-06-20) # The only thing missing I would add is this.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Demo Germany. Nice and leanâ?? and free online Kanban tool. Kanban Tool â?? Another Kanban tool. Acunote â?? Agile project management. Agilezen â?? Lean project management. VersionOne â??