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

YoungUpstarts

The traditional advantages of small businesses over corporations are personalized service and an inventory of niche products tailored to their local market. This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. Automation. Update a spreadsheet. Predictive Analytics.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

39:34) Humility in leadership and learning from the mistakes. (42:07) And that sense of optimism, that sense that now is the time to roll up our sleeves and get busy, that is a principle antidote to despair as we see this darkness envelop our society. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. The results of Alex’s experiments and early successes gave Alex the confidence to propose to the BBC leadership a new product vision and strategy which she called “BBC Out Of Home.”

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The Surprising Ways a Distributed Team Can Help Your Company Succeed

crowdSPRING Blog

I love working with people from around the world and truly believe that distributed teams provide huge benefits for small businesses and startups. Luckily, we have found a way to make sure no team member has to work unnatural hours for our daily scrums. Smart business owners and entrepreneurs should pay attention and experiment.

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The Work/Home Möbius Strip

crowdSPRING Blog

The same goes for home: dinnertime should be sacrosanct (or damn close to it), but dates, movies, even favorite TV shows should be on the calendar and should have the same level of importance in your life as the daily scrum or the weekly roadmap. Take vacations. And mean it. Seriously?

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