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

Up and Running

Although the retail giant has recently been in hot water regarding their company culture, it will never be said that they’re willing to rest on their laurels. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. So what does scrum look like in the modern workplace?

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

YoungUpstarts

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. I was one of four leaders of an enormous failed development project at Wells Fargo around 2007. Which brings us to this book.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams. The approach demystifies the design process by involving the other team members (yes, developers too!) in the problem-solving process.

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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. Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft.

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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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25 Things that make hiring technical talent much easier

This is going to be BIG.

You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). You actively contribute to open source projects as part of your development. Your technical lead has good enough business sense to have the full respect of the rest of the management team. See the Joel Test. They believe in you, the founder.

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Stop Starting, Start Finishing with Agile

ReadWriteStart

It is executed through practices of Kanban , Scrum, XP. Agile rests upon the three pillars of People, Processes, and Tools. The Agile process model, as depicted in the image below, shows a single cycle of a project which comprises gathering the requirements, design stage, development, testing, deployment, and review.

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