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How To Build A Career In Agile Software Development

YoungUpstarts

It is no surprise that Agile as a revolution of the software development and project management world is still picking up its pace. This has caused a need for Agile professionals within the IT sector who understand the principles and methodology behind this concepts of Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. Quality Improvements.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Lean Startups need to make snap decisions, iterate quickly and pivot when needed. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams.

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Why Everyone Wants To Be Agile

YoungUpstarts

If you keep up with the news on project management and business strategy, you’ve probably come across the buzzword “agile” more than a few times. It’s clear that the IT world loves agile: over 75 percent of software developers are using, or plan to use agile project management software. Defining Agile.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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How to manage technical and creative people when you’re in-between the two

The Next Web

Marketing , a multi-channel lifestyle agency specializing in experiential and promotional services. Maybe you are tasked with managing cross-functional teams, with a creative objective grounded in digital and tech. Talking scrum to creative won’t work as well as to developers. Partner with champions.

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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. What’s worse is that as you grow you’ve probably developed some pretty bad habits as far as setting priorities and strategy: like thinking you’re a genius - just because you got funded - and that genius is what allows you to *know* what the market wants.

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