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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

Like the others, it grew out of seeing problems in practice, this time the problems of mistakenly thinking that implementing scrum is the same as become agile. I drew from experiences in my career and also from the leading software companies I’ve had the pleasure of partnering with. They taught leadership, not just scrum.

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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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Developing Strong Product Owners

SVPG

” This note discusses the technique that I use and advocate for providing a framework for ongoing skills assessment and development. Scrum) and understand his critical role in creating and managing the backlog of work? Do they feel like they have a true partner in product that is genuinely committed to their business success?

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

Technology leadership need to consider build/buy/partner options. Using the framework Should these principles be a driving framework for self organizing teams, or should there be formal process or governance around it? No Scrum Master? What is Really Meant by Failing Early, Failing Oft. What Could Save Media Businesses.

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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

A quick note, while I primarily talk about co-founders, the same principals should also be applied to interacting with all early employees as you really are partners on the mission to build a great product. However, one of the great things about scrum is that you are always estimating forward the amount of work remaining in a given task.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

It allows the company to eliminate the lines between their separate business units as well as improve customer satisfaction, 123 EDI Shipping Outsourcing, ArcGIS geographic authoring, BGT Partners consulting for B2B portal and CMS, Clarity Consulting for ABC QuickShip Application Development, Computer Aid, Inc. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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

ConversionXL

Strategic content gives the audiences the frameworks and processes they need to make the conceptual ideas reality, and helps them frame up the solution space (again, not your product or service but how to think about solutions). How Atlassian used the conceptual, strategic, and tactical frameworks . Distribution framework.

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