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

YoungUpstarts

SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software. This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. Solutions aimed at SMBs are more widely available. In 2016, SMBs used an average of 4.8

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Generation Agile: 10 Tips How To Lead Effectively A Newly Outsourced Development Team

YoungUpstarts

Agile project management and team leadership are best showcased by leading a team of developers in completing software development projects. Scrum is the most popular Agile methodology, with Jira, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Project, being the most popular tool to be used in Agile project management. Agile is here to stay.

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Should Your Startup Be an Agile Company

Women Entrepreneurs Can

In the very early days of any startup, the matters of company strategy , structure, culture and leadership are rarely formally addressed. Most startups are tiny which makes them perfectly suitable for the agile approach, even if we’re talking Scrum which (recommends) limits the number of team members to 9. How Big Are You?

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Values Build Startup Culture: A Founder’s Take on Getting Started

View from Seed

We started the process of building our company culture early, before we hired any employees, by writing down our desired values. While working on our last startup, Derek and I often spent long lunches discussing what we were “hacking” in our lives: the latest diet, workout, productivity system, or leadership technique.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

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. LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. When it comes time to grow your team, Jeff Jordan and Eric pointed out three hiring mistakes to avoid.

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This I Believe

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I believe in leadership. The surprising thing is that the accomplishments I feel proudest of today are not the actual products I helped create, but rather, the many people across our industry I have helped to hire and develop. I love how technology constantly changes, and I love how what is now possible is constantly changing.

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The Surprising Ways a Distributed Team Can Help Your Company Succeed

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Distributed teams allow companies to hire better employees. Hire the best talent, regardless of where it is.” Luckily, we have found a way to make sure no team member has to work unnatural hours for our daily scrums. There is however, much more. By keeping track of the different time zones, we are able to find a good balance.