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

YoungUpstarts

Like the others, it grew out of seeing problems in practice, this time the problems of mistakenly thinking that implementing scrum is the same as become agile. I drew from experiences in my career and also from the leading software companies I’ve had the pleasure of partnering with. They taught leadership, not just scrum.

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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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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The partners here had made many great investments in consumer companies before then — companies that resulted in successful IPOs like BlueNile and eHealth in the late 90s. For that reason I was thrilled when Aaron Batalion joined as my partner in November. In addition, Jon Steinberg has also joined us, as a Venture Partner.

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How to manage technical and creative people when you’re in-between the two

The Next Web

Partner with champions. That is who you want to partner with. Once you have that person on your side, you can partner to drive not only faster adoption, but through their voice you can be assured that the message comes across in words and meaning that is closest to their sentiment. Those with influence, influence.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures). We offered Ryan space to work out of our office which he did for a year or so as he got things up and running. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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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. Will you be taking on partners or even outsourced help? Things are even more complicated if you are planning on partnering up with someone else.

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

Mucker Lab

For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners. After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006.