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

Up and Running

Kaizen: a way to improve all functions and all employees. All it takes is one observant employee to get the ball rolling, and soon a small group of hand-picked team members convenes to brainstorm—and eventually trial—new approaches to old problems. See Also: How to Recognize and Put a Stop to Employee Burnout. Then Lead Them.

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Managing a remote team? We've got the right project management techniques for you

Transformify

GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics calculates that this saving for each half-time remote employee could reach $11,000 per year. It demands a level of employee management and project management skills beyond regular. 1- Scrum: Scrum is an agile project management methodology with a focus on delivering products as fast as possible.

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[Review] Social Marketology

YoungUpstarts

Let me now highlight some of the book’s salient concepts: Managing the Team : Similar to “herding cats”, social media units can be managed like “scrum teams” where work is broken into small chunks with specific tasks assigned and monitored daily. Monthly brand voice reviews should also be conducted.

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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. In the case of C3, that was to run payroll for 87,000 employees, who were presumably receiving payroll before the project began. Thats pretty clear.

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

Up and Running

AdBlock gets rid of everything—Google ads, banner ads on websites, YouTube video ads, you name it. The only things you’ll ever need to pay for are the tools that allow you to pay your employees directly, and the ability to accept credit cards online. Take a look at Palo Alto Software employee profiles: Noah Parsons and Josh Cochrane.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

Go to any of the LinkedIn profiles of entrepreneurs in Bay Area and you see names like Google, eBay, Apple, Yahoo, PayPal, and Facebook littered throughout. It’s easy (and perhaps intellectually lazy) to use those big brand names as a proxy for the quality and potential of these entrepreneurs. “Stamps of Approval” and “Opportunity”.

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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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