YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

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. And most importantly, 46% of those use Agile methods extend the practice towards managing outsourced projects.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. 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.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

It’s becoming increasingly important for every business to have at least basic technology to run daily operations in the current day society. Thanks to Paul Lewis, Scrum Explainer ! #10- Businesses don’t need to adjust their regular operating hours and wait for the availability of the customer service representatives.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

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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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

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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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Further feature development does not slow down the development process but as extra information is derived from live metrics, a/b testing becomes possible and the whole game needs to be operated. Similarly there is no operation/admin team to operate the servers or other parts of infrastructure. Knowledge sharing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Of course, if you’re operating a business, it’s not always a good idea to work in a bubble. For example, Trello is a great “list making” tool in its own right, but if you use it with Scrum/Agile project management techniques, you’re 10x more likely to benefit. After all, how do you know what your competition is doing?

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

• Build a close, collaborative ethos amongst team (delivery focused) including Product Management, Tech Ops, Architects, Developers, QA and Business Operations. Required Education/Certifications: • Project Management Professional Certification (Certified Scrum Master a strong plus). • Project status reporting.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Since managed hosting providers inherently operate at scale, resources are readily available for expansion. He’s also a certified Scrum Product Owner, ITIL Foundation Certified and a practitioner of Pragmatic Marketing and Journey Mapping. Because equipment can be dedicated to a single client, the environment is more protected.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 5, 2014

Our operations manager Rob notes that he wouldn’t have been able to get a pup without this flexibility. We keep ourselves accountable to those goals through company progress dashboards, Scrum, etc. Remote Work Policy: Our employees work remote when it makes sense for them, personally and professionally. We find those people.

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Guy Nirpaz

MAY 1, 2016

It is written in similar style to the Scrum book I’ve used to learn how to become a successful engineering leader. This book is based on the Scrum book that impacted my life significantly as an engineer. I want this book to empower VPs and leaders with the farming framework and an operating model for Customer Success.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. It should be able to operate with maximum autonomy on everything it owns without having to ask for permission or information from other teams, except for the infrequent case of a feature or bug that crosses team boundaries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. I have been using various forms of Agile development -- mainly XP and Scrum -- for many years, but only recently came across "customer development" which makes a whole lot of sense to me.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. After releasing the MVP, we work on a lean scrum to iterate based on early data/feedback until we start to see signs of product-market fit. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. incubators, e.g., the many options in New York.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Indeed the first thing I thought when I read the first paragraphs that the product manager was operating in a white tower and that the developers felt disenfranchised. This post has been removed by the author. Nice write-up.

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SVPG

JUNE 5, 2015

Anyway, the engineers will typically break up the work into a set of iterations - called “sprints” in the Scrum process. The good news is that I promise you that the best teams operate nothing like what I’ve just described. This is usually where Agile finally enters the picture. I warned you this could be depressing.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Turning Good Ideas into Operational Reality. No Scrum Master? What is Really Meant by Failing Early, Failing Oft. What Could Save Media Businesses. ► November. (3). My Time Leading Tech at BusinessWeek. No Problem. ► October. (5). When Organizational Silos Hurt Innovation. Bloomberg Buys BusinessWeek - and its Innovative D.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. In addition, TheFunded.com allows entrepreneurs to view and share term sheets, to assist one other finding good investor, and to discuss the many facets of operating a business. Acunote â??

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2013

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? Enjoy the work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night. They aren't USAA members, but"- Eric Ries : Oh, that's great.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

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,

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. The results were that the Israeli system became operational 10 years ago, while the THAAD project is starting to finally be deployed this year after 10 years of delay. pay 'interest').

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And the big guys can’t do that, because they’d have to re-train people and anyway, they don’t operate that way, I can.’ Which is similar, it has less of a SCRUM-my feel to it. You don’t have to mess with all these other filters and dimensions and what not. That’s just how it’s gonna be.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2015

Does that sit into the Agile scrum team? Are they bearing the scrum, bearing the team or everywhere. It would bear a lot of the AB testing expertise into the scrum team, so you can innovate. It’s a contact center and it’s about agents, it’s about people, it’s about operational efficiency.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

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). To execute effectively on your product marketing strategy , marketing and sales need to operate as one unit.

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