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3 Versatile roles of a Scrum Master

The Startup Magazine

The scrum and agile practices help in achieving the organization’s objectives. A scrum master plays a unique role in an organization. He/she facilitates agility and lets the team organize itself and adapt quickly by following the agile and scrum principles. A few Scrum Master characteristics are: For the Product owner.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully. Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail. XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Hes often felt that there was something missing. Enter Jims post.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Values Build Startup Culture: A Founder’s Take on Getting Started

View from Seed

For seed-stage startups, when resources are tight, trying to consciously build startup culture can feel wasteful. Below, Ben makes the case for why defining values is actually a worthwhile exercise, and he outlines his startup’s approach. Since we’re a startup, we definitely see more flow than ebb.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I have been thinking a lot about what a new version of this test would look like, given what Ive seen work and not work in startups. but I have not seen that dysfunction in any of the startups I advise, so hopefully its behind us. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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