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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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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

One example would be generating order confirmation emails after a customer completes a purchase online. Automation involves creating a list of processes that trigger other actions or processes without needing to check with a human first. Automation can also walk a customer through basic troubleshooting after an error is reported.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics. All participants have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Project/ Product Management.

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Are Agile Innovation Methods Right for Your Team?

The Startup Magazine

This means the holding of daily scrum meetings and the ability of all involved employees to talk about barriers and discuss status, as well as input from the product owner. HR would be responsible for promoting ongoing relationships with employees across multiple channels, including live chat, email, phone and/or social media.

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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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How to avoid “death by meeting.”

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] The concept of a scrum is a good one to use in many cases of immediate need to coordinate a working group. The purpose of the Scrum. Scrums are effective and should be short, scheduled, and supervised. Board meetings are often killers. . Hardeners of the arteries of progress.

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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.