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

Up and Running

During this consequential decade, in its search to improve processes, Toyota began looking for inspiration beyond the automotive industry. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. Finally, let’s take a look at the increasingly popular problem-solving method—especially in the technology sector—known as scrum.

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The Search For Product Market Fit

Seeing Both Sides

I had never tried a spontaneous scrum like this before and it was great fun.

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[Review] Social Marketology

YoungUpstarts

Let me now highlight some of the book’s salient concepts: Managing the Team : Similar to “herding cats”, social media units can be managed like “scrum teams” where work is broken into small chunks with specific tasks assigned and monitored daily.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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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. Author and Stanford professor Steve Blank defines a startup as “an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology Will Affect Their Business Tomorrow

Hearpreneur

Technology can be your best friend by saving you time, helping you stay connected, educating or entertaining you on topics of interest with a Google search. Thanks to Paul Lewis, Scrum Explainer ! #10- I started a global branding and digital marketing firm 19 years ago. Speed is everything in business, there is no denying about it.

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Learn Corporate Communication Tricks In Slack

YoungUpstarts

It is also convenient if you wish to manage remote team meetings or improve your Scrum productivity at any stage. So, one left swipe will open the search, and by moving to the right you will get access to the mobile analog of the right sidebar. Insert a question on any topic and pin it in the chat. Configure Notifications.

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