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How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen and Scrum

Up and Running

Although the retail giant has recently been in hot water regarding their company culture, it will never be said that they’re willing to rest on their laurels. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. So what does scrum look like in the modern workplace?

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

YoungUpstarts

Our part of the initiative was great: we had built out pioneering eClosing for mortgages, online document delivery and uploads, a sophisticated document generation system, efficient and accurate document imaging and indexing, but the rest of the project failed. They taught leadership, not just scrum. I still love and use scrum widely.

Agile 113
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Stop Starting, Start Finishing with Agile

ReadWriteStart

It is executed through practices of Kanban , Scrum, XP. Agile rests upon the three pillars of People, Processes, and Tools. Agile mindset is a system of beliefs characterized by a customer-centric approach, emphasizing communication and consistent collaboration with the customer and inside the team. What is Agile Thinking?

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams. The conversation around this sketch provides enough directional insight for the rest of the team to voice any concerns, to begin the estimation process and to start coding. Providing insight early allows the rest of the team to move forward as well.

Lean 165
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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective. Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. Not one to mince words, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs was a stickler for focus.

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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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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. We instituted the “Great Idea Gong” (GIG) that they thwacked every time a teammate wanted to share a “Big Idea” with the rest of the class. Scrum boards are a huge success for kid teams. this is what I learned. This is what I am doing next.

Lean 306