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

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The traditional advantages of small businesses over corporations are personalized service and an inventory of niche products tailored to their local market. If SMBs don’t also embrace and maximize data, these large companies could steal their client base and market share. This also creates a place for hosting all of your data.

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

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In our market today, successful teams are those that adapt, grow, and thrive in the rapidly changing tech scape. 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. Cycle time of tasks.

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[Review] Social Marketology

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Social media marketing is probably the most heavily written management topic on the planet. Providing a methodical framework covering strategy, organisation, execution and measurement, the book provides a step by step process to managing the social media marketing function. An example is seen below: Courtesy of DragonSearch Marketing.

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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. What’s worse is that as you grow you’ve probably developed some pretty bad habits as far as setting priorities and strategy: like thinking you’re a genius - just because you got funded - and that genius is what allows you to *know* what the market wants.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. No more, no less.

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

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decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. If the innovation is successful, then the metrics should help drive the enhancement into the top/right "agile happy place" quadrant. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. No Scrum Master? Twitter Profile.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.