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Escaping the Design Trap in Agile Marketing

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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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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

To support the three Cs, ING has also developed their own iterative practice named PACE. The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. We tried to define the best for us, and then we started practicing.”

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

Up and Running

Email management tools. If you’re like me and you do your best work from about 10pm onwards, you’ve probably also been in one of my pickles: How do you send an email at 2am without looking seriously unprofessional? This handy little tool allows you to write and schedule your emails for a more “appropriate” sending time.

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

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We’d then send them increasingly pushy emails to nurture them into deciding to make a purchase. A unanimous agreement on a name without prompting supports a “thumbs up” rating on this attribute. For example, Kanban and Scrum are two popular agile project management rituals. Conclusion.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

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Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? – Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Startup Tools

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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.