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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. Learned something completely new about your audience? The role of scrum master has become less relevant as each team member owns their own accountability. Hit a milestone? Tell the business owner. Exceeded your original expectations? Tell your boss.

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. This would not just drive the team towards achieving our shared goals, but also attract people who appreciate such an outlook: i.e. our audience, our users, our evangelists in the future.

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Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

ConversionXL

The traditional buyer’s funnel relies on linear decision-making, assuming that an audience will move neatly to become a prospect, then customer. To build a playground such that your audience experiences a seamless journey, no matter which path they take? Breaking content out of the linear funnel. Choosing what to talk about.

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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. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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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. When its receding, we rescope. Do you have a spec?

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The Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs and Obsessive Collectors

Up and Running

As you may suspect, this is one audience you can rely on to produce good content or great lists. For example, Trello is a great “list making” tool in its own right, but if you use it with Scrum/Agile project management techniques, you’re 10x more likely to benefit. After all, it’s primarily comprised of readers and writers!

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

The workshop will go all day and will be for a carefully screened audience. I have been using various forms of Agile development -- mainly XP and Scrum -- for many years, but only recently came across "customer development" which makes a whole lot of sense to me. May 29 - the Lean Startup Workshop. Excellent post.