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Does Scrum Apply To All Types Of Projects?

The Startup Magazine

It’s a regular question googled in relation to the adaption of scrum methodology, and still people are confused whether to implement it in their projects. All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. When Scrum can be followed. SCRUM METHODOLOGY.

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Agile Marketing: How to Implement Scrum for Digital Marketing

ConversionXL

Before we dive into the marketing applications, however, let’s briefly cover what scrum is and how it came to be. An Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development. Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.” sourced from the Scrum Guide. Basics of Scrum Framework. Simple to understand.

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5 Agile Practices That Are Fueling Marketing Teams

ConversionXL

While software developers prefer more prescriptive methods, like Scrum , marketers borrow heavily from the Kanban framework. To operate as a pure Scrum marketing team, marketers would need to timebox their to-do list and commit to getting a specific cluster of tasks out the door after 2–4 weeks of active work. Image source ).

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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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[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.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective. And yet when they started startups, they decided to build recipe sites, or aggregators for local events.”

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

ConversionXL

For example, Kanban and Scrum are two popular agile project management rituals. And, finally, the open-rate and click-through rate on our post-event emails was higher than past events because we referenced the popular give-away in the subject line, and our ebook tied to their time at the booth. Conclusion.

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