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Using independent teams to scale a small company: A look at how games company Wooga works

The Next Web

The rest are providing central services like marketing, customer care and localization (20%) or others like HR, PR, Finance, Business Analytics and teams that maintain simple services for persistence of games. Teams decide on their own how to do things, although they usually blend in elements of Scrum and/or Kanban.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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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. I recommend you interview and do a session with several coaches before you hire one.