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Why Successful Product Management Involves More Than Spectacular Specs

YoungUpstarts

Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Development teams must build a muscle for reliable estimation and delivery, whether through Scrum velocity metrics or their own approach.

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

YoungUpstarts

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. Start by identifying every method you currently have of collecting information, including marketing data, website metrics, feedback collection and analysis procedures. The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

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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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Using independent teams to scale a small company: A look at how games company Wooga works

The Next Web

It’s completely up to them if they want to listen or ignore outside advice – even if it’s from one of the founders. Further feature development does not slow down the development process but as extra information is derived from live metrics, a/b testing becomes possible and the whole game needs to be operated. Knowledge sharing.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

dalelarson : "Metrics are people, too." leanstartup ericnsantos : #w2e #leanstartup Metrics should be Actionable, Accessible and Auditable. Metrics are a key questions startups face. Metrics are people too" is a reminder I constantly needed when I was a manager. ericries s talk on Lean Startups absolutely fantastic.

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

The advantages of cross-functional teams are well documented, and for a thorough treatment I recommend the theory in the second half of Agile Software Development with Scrum. Scrum recommends 30 days; I have worked in one or two-week cycles up to about three months. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence.

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