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Are Agile Innovation Methods Right for Your Team?

The Startup Magazine

This means the holding of daily scrum meetings and the ability of all involved employees to talk about barriers and discuss status, as well as input from the product owner. Are your teams co-located? — If you have team members working remotely and across the country, they would no doubt benefit from working under an agile approach.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

But the classic approach of researching new keywords then writing articles for those that match your domain strength doesn’t work for all sites. User intent + Jobs-to-be-done = a match made in heaven. If you’ve never heard the term scrum or agile before, you’re behind. Take Quora, for example. Know the process.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Heroku’s initial team breakdown looked like this: API - Owns our user-facing web app and the matching Heroku client gem. Don’t do that stuff. Herokus first teams.

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25 Things that make hiring technical talent much easier

This is going to be BIG.

Your dev environment (pair programming, silo, etc) matches with how their brain works. You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). They're not going to be overly managed by a million product managers, project managers, etc., who can't get on the same page. See the Joel Test.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Which is similar, it has less of a SCRUM-my feel to it. Anything like that where you can just drag and drop to order them, but it’s still linear in time, I feel is at least having the tool match reality. Another one is Trello, that’s a tool out of Fog Creek.

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7 Account-Based Marketing Examples and Lessons

ConversionXL

If the account matches your personas (whether that’s based on company size, operational processes, or expected deal size), then you can justify cost-intensive ABM approaches (like personalized gifts). Do this by creating Scrum-style squads with individual contributors from each department working together on specified accounts.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Wille (2010-06-20) # I would say that the "User Story" template format of writing requirements pushed by the Scrum Agile methodology is the way to go, as it chunks functionality in a common, easily overviewable format with a common language. Diwant Vaidya (2010-06-20) # I liked the idea of hire multiple for that first milestone.