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

YoungUpstarts

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. I drew from experiences in my career and also from the leading software companies I’ve had the pleasure of partnering with.

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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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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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Should Your Startup Be an Agile Company

Women Entrepreneurs Can

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. Of course, one or two-person startups will probably not require any kind of a structured agile approach as they will operate as a tightly-knit unit by default.

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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. Turning Good Ideas into Operational Reality. No Scrum Master? The existing practice cant easily meet requirements and there may be an underlying investment in capability such as platforms, people, or process to help solution. What Could Save Media Businesses.

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Stop Starting, Start Finishing with Agile

ReadWriteStart

It is executed through practices of Kanban , Scrum, XP. Agile is all about trust in team and business operations generally. That’s why companies that are using this approach are considered to be more trusted to partner up with other businesses. What is Agile Thinking? The customers get exactly what they want.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,