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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Jeff will also be joining us on stage at Startup Lessons Learned 2011 , where he will be presenting a case study on his experience blending design, Lean Startup, and large company culture. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams. A dedicated User Experience (UX) designer is assigned to this team.

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Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development

SoCal CTO

You don't need a lot of documentation of these items. A great post , Joe Little starts with acknowledging that Scrum and Agile proponents often downplay upfront planning. In three of the cases, these were in contracts! Of course, even for the internal development team, this is pretty much a contract with your founder.

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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

Our part of the initiative was great: we had built out pioneering eClosing for mortgages, online document delivery and uploads, a sophisticated document generation system, efficient and accurate document imaging and indexing, but the rest of the project failed. I drew inspiration from how Toyota designed a new car.

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Three Methodologies That Help Businesses Stay Creative

YoungUpstarts

A case management system (CMS) is a platform for deploying and designing solutions that assist people attain the right content, and apply analytics for faster and accurate decisions to ensure the business has a better outcome. After the initial requirements are set, the team produces a requirement specification document.

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

Up and Running

If you’re working on important documents and don’t want to get spelling wrong (especially if you’re working in the cloud), this handy extension is for you. This is especially useful if you’re working through a dense document. It’s simple, colorful, adaptive and therefore—in today’s flat design, utility driven world—sexy!

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5 Agile Practices That Are Fueling Marketing Teams

ConversionXL

While software developers prefer more prescriptive methods, like Scrum , marketers borrow heavily from the Kanban framework. To operate as a pure Scrum marketing team, marketers would need to timebox their to-do list and commit to getting a specific cluster of tasks out the door after 2–4 weeks of active work. Image source ).

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

Entire conversations would take place when the CTO and I were in China whilst the CMO/designer was left to catch up hours later through chat or a rehashed conversation. 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.