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

YoungUpstarts

I love taking on impactful challenges that require mobilization of large teams and multiple organizations, and delivering solutions that make a difference. Like the others, it grew out of seeing problems in practice, this time the problems of mistakenly thinking that implementing scrum is the same as become agile.

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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. In doubt, implement SCRUM as closely as soon you can for a good baseline. Development. Peer review. Make sure that any code change is peer reviewed.

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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. Investment in these documents is low with their real purpose being to spur discussion – both within the team and beyond it to business owners and customers. Mobile designs require the context of the device to truly get a sense of the experience.

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The Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs and Obsessive Collectors

Up and Running

To help you prep, I’ve collated a list of tools—for both web and mobile devices—that have helped me and others get things done, save time, and work more productively. If you’re working on important documents and don’t want to get spelling wrong (especially if you’re working in the cloud), this handy extension is for you. Google Keep.

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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.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. For modifications, please edit the original document here. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application?

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

A big part of that is speed and mobile friendliness. Test new features with Google’s rendering tool in Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, and their Mobile-Friendly Test: Google Search Console. Google Mobile-Friendly Test. If you’ve never heard the term scrum or agile before, you’re behind. Google PageSpeed Insights.

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