The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

Scrum for Managing Team Interactions Scrum is a perfected orchestration of teamwork that arises within the vast canopy of Agile. In Scrum, the project is broken down into manageable “sprints,” or iterations, that run for a few weeks and help keep the momentum going.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

At my last startup we eventually started using a process called "scrum," which is basically a framework for managing agile engineering projects. However, one of the great things about scrum is that you are always estimating forward the amount of work remaining in a given task. Never Minimize the Value of Your Co-Founder.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. Finally, let’s take a look at the increasingly popular problem-solving method—especially in the technology sector—known as scrum. Scrum comes to us from the worlds of product and software development, where creative iteration and collaboration are of the utmost importance. .

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OnlyOnce

MAY 12, 2016

Book Short: Scrum ptious . I just finished reading Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time , by Jeff Sutherland and JJ Sutherland. Sutherland gets credit for creating the agile framework and bringing the concept scrum to software development over 20 years ago.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

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. They taught leadership, not just scrum. Are you saying there’s no place for scrum, for instance? I still love and use scrum widely. Which brings us to this book.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

A great post , Joe Little starts with acknowledging that Scrum and Agile proponents often downplay upfront planning. Part of this is confusion on terminology around various Agile methodologies and terminology. But a big part of the problem is one of attitude. drowned out by Agilists saying "why do you want to do up-front planning?"

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2016

Scrum methodology. Scrum was developed for the software world since it is all about adapting to altering parameters and productivity. Transparent communication and creative leadership are indispensable to every project. It is a subset of agile methodology.Scrum is named after the rugby game.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

Many project management frameworks are rooted in agile, such as scrum, kanban, lean, and extreme programming (XP). Agile methodology typically breaks projects down into smaller increments to be worked on in short time frames (“sprints,” if you’re using scrum). Regular self-assessment and adjustment of teams and project.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams. The role of scrum master has become less relevant as each team member owns their own accountability. Elements of scrum have begun to get mixed in with kanban seamlessly as the way the team works continues to evolve and improve every two weeks.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

As a dynamic business leader and a Certified Scrum Master, Humberto leads a team of highly skilled software engineers and developers as CEO and co-founder at Concepta , providing tailored web and mobile applications to small-to-medium enterprises.

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ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2020

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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SVPG

DECEMBER 8, 2010

And one of the reasons I advocate for Scrum is that as a process it values this role of project manager as “impediment remover” (known as the Scrum Master role). I've seen bad Scrum Masters damage the relationship between product owner and team - building distrust between them.”

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Systems such as Scrum can help separate departments communicate effectively, and that is an absolute necessity. . - Maren Hogan , Red Branch Media. Adjust the Workflow. Workflow solutions can make a huge impact on the productivity of a team if the communication is well-facilitated. Daniel Wesley, Creditloan.com.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Let me now highlight some of the book’s salient concepts: Managing the Team : Similar to “herding cats”, social media units can be managed like “scrum teams” where work is broken into small chunks with specific tasks assigned and monitored daily.

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Transformify

JANUARY 2, 2021

1- Scrum: Scrum is an agile project management methodology with a focus on delivering products as fast as possible. A scrum team is a small group of (no more than 9) cross-functional professionals that are responsible for the project as a whole. Contrary to Scrum which allocated a fixed time (i.e. 3- Scrumban.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

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. So we just flag these now and address them during the next chat or on the spot if everyone is there. Set it up at a time when the team can overlap without disrupting sleep schedules.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Talking scrum to creative won’t work as well as to developers. 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.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective. Said McClure,”We worship at the altar of ‘ lean ‘ a little too much when really we should just be running our businesses.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics. All participants have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Project/ Product Management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

As Marketer Gizmo explains : When they hear the phrase “agile marketing,” most people think of the Scrum methodology. Featuring sprints, daily standup meetings, and a public “to-do” list known as the Backlog, Scrum is one of the most popular frameworks for implementing departmental agility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

The advantages of cross-functional teams are well documented, and for a thorough treatment I recommend the theory in the second half of Agile Software Development with Scrum. Scrum recommends 30 days; I have worked in one or two-week cycles up to about three months. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This means the holding of daily scrum meetings and the ability of all involved employees to talk about barriers and discuss status, as well as input from the product owner. Are your teams co-located? — If you have team members working remotely and across the country, they would no doubt benefit from working under an agile approach.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. . … Let's see what works well, what doesn't work well for us, for our organization, for our culture.’ We tried to define the best for us, and then we started practicing.”

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop. (Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

You see it when a Scrum team is frustrated because they have multiple product owners to deal with, or when product managers have to constantly fight for resources that keep disappearing. The key is not to drive the product structure around the engineering teams, but rather to work together with engineering to move together into alignment.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 30, 2018

The Sprint meeting must be facilitated by the Scrum Master and clarifications about the product backlog items must be provided by a Product Owner. The Product Owner and Scrum Master must work together with the Agile Team towards achieving the sprint commitment. The length of the sprint will be defined by the agreement made by the team.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Scrum is the most popular Agile methodology, with Jira, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Project, being the most popular tool to be used in Agile project management. Agile is here to stay. And most importantly, 46% of those use Agile methods extend the practice towards managing outsourced projects.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. (Eventually, they may abolish specs altogether) Theres much more this team can do to eliminate waste in the way that they work and thereby iterate faster.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

For example, Trello is a great “list making” tool in its own right, but if you use it with Scrum/Agile project management techniques, you’re 10x more likely to benefit. A lot of these tools are better when they’re used with specific tactics in mind or if used in conjunction with other tools and applications.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

It is executed through practices of Kanban , Scrum, XP. Agile mindset is a system of beliefs characterized by a customer-centric approach, emphasizing communication and consistent collaboration with the customer and inside the team. What is Agile Thinking?

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2019

The scrum and agile practices help in achieving the organization’s objectives. A scrum master plays a unique role in an organization. He/she facilitates agility and lets the team organize itself and adapt quickly by following the agile and scrum principles. A few Scrum Master characteristics are: For the Product owner.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

I have been using various forms of Agile development -- mainly XP and Scrum -- for many years, but only recently came across "customer development" which makes a whole lot of sense to me. Inspired me to expand on the "whiteboard iteration" idea with some similar lessons that ive learned. link] April 11, 2009 10:24 PM Daniel Prager said.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the same vein, because not as many entrepreneurs in Los Angeles worked at companies like Google or Facebook, a lot of them have not really gotten the training they need to properly communicate requirements, run a scrum, or conduct A/B testing. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Teams decide on their own how to do things, although they usually blend in elements of Scrum and/or Kanban. We think agile development is not about applying a specific methodology, it is about following the correct principles and to constantly reflect on whether you are aligned correctly and to correct things when necessary.

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