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The Five Apps You Should be using with MS Teams

The Startup Magazine

Agile Scrum daily meetings have become a commonplace solution for development teams to hit and exceed targets. One Teams app in particular can be a godsend to teams forced into adopting remote work as standard and still maintain a working scrum methodology. ScrumGenius.

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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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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. But first I think we need to save the product manager from that special form of torture only a waterfall product development team can create.

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Startup Lessons Learned

At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. " And, as I tried to outline in the article, process improvements that reduce overall batch size might be a better choice. Bring your questions.