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

ConversionXL

For example, Kanban and Scrum are two popular agile project management rituals. When considering asset types, don’t get stuck in a rut thinking that “content” means a blog post or a white paper, content can be written (long-form or short-form), visual, audio, or interactive.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. Which is similar, it has less of a SCRUM-my feel to it. It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. That’s just how it’s gonna be.

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Episode 13: How to Solve Problems in Your Business, Human Resources, and #Zappos | The Bcast

Up and Running

In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Scrum. Forbes: Scrum is a Major Management Discovery . Audio transcript: Peter: Hey, good afternoon Jonathan. You do Scrum every week.

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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: 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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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. The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence. No more, no less. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Best of all, Nivi from Venture Hacks was recording, so these slides have synchronized audio, too. So without further ado, let me share the slides with audio. I want to thank those people who were recording, tweeting, and posting from the hall itself. Thanks to you I know about the energy in the room and even have pictures to prove it.