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

YoungUpstarts

Like the others, it grew out of seeing problems in practice, this time the problems of mistakenly thinking that implementing scrum is the same as become agile. I drew from experiences in my career and also from the leading software companies I’ve had the pleasure of partnering with. They taught leadership, not just scrum.

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5 Agile Practices That Are Fueling Marketing Teams

ConversionXL

The differences between how agility manifests in a marketing team vs. a software team can be striking. While software developers prefer more prescriptive methods, like Scrum , marketers borrow heavily from the Kanban framework. There are other differences. Image source ). Image source ). What will I do today?

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

The Next Web

Partner with champions. That is who you want to partner with. Once you have that person on your side, you can partner to drive not only faster adoption, but through their voice you can be assured that the message comes across in words and meaning that is closest to their sentiment. Those with influence, influence.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. I spoke with Thatcher Bell , Managing Partner, CoVenture.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies. We weren’t the first investor in Rally. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Should Your Startup Be an Agile Company

Women Entrepreneurs Can

As informed by agile software development , some of the basic ideas behind running a startup the agile way include: Welcoming change. Most startups are tiny which makes them perfectly suitable for the agile approach, even if we’re talking Scrum which (recommends) limits the number of team members to 9. Improved adaptability.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Technology leadership need to consider build/buy/partner options. agile software development. (46). agile software development. (46). software development. (47). software qa. (8).

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