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Agile Marketing: How to Implement Scrum for Digital Marketing

ConversionXL

Before we dive into the marketing applications, however, let’s briefly cover what scrum is and how it came to be. An Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development. Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.” sourced from the Scrum Guide. Basics of Scrum Framework. Simple to understand.

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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

A quick note, while I primarily talk about co-founders, the same principals should also be applied to interacting with all early employees as you really are partners on the mission to build a great product. However, one of the great things about scrum is that you are always estimating forward the amount of work remaining in a given task.

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How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen and Scrum

Up and Running

Kaizen: a way to improve all functions and all employees. All it takes is one observant employee to get the ball rolling, and soon a small group of hand-picked team members convenes to brainstorm—and eventually trial—new approaches to old problems. See Also: How to Recognize and Put a Stop to Employee Burnout.

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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. In the case of C3, that was to run payroll for 87,000 employees, who were presumably receiving payroll before the project began. Thats pretty clear.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Implementing enterprise apps at the operational level eliminates redundant operations, increase efficiency, and improves employee morale. When combined though, artificial intelligence and automation takes tedious or repetitive tasks out of human hands, leaving employees free for more skilled projects. Automation.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Can an established organization with a recognized brand, proven revenue stream and an employee count in the hundreds or thousands embrace these principles? TheLadders’ subscription model has proven to be successful and the company has enjoyed solid growth with the employee count crossing 400 recently.

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12 ways to get your business development and tech teams on the same page

The Next Web

At Red Branch, we stress that employees’ skills have distinct market values. Systems such as Scrum can help separate departments communicate effectively, and that is an absolute necessity. Explain to employees where they will be if it is successful. Without both, you’re going to have a bad time. Wade Foster , Zapier.