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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.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Save the rest for later. No need to even tell people about the rest unless theyre really really interested. Then carry on with the rest. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs.