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

Up and Running

During this consequential decade, in its search to improve processes, Toyota began looking for inspiration beyond the automotive industry. 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.

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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. 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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[Review] Social Marketology

YoungUpstarts

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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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

Lean 168
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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

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. Author and Stanford professor Steve Blank defines a startup as “an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”

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The Search For Product Market Fit

Seeing Both Sides

I had never tried a spontaneous scrum like this before and it was great fun.

Search 46
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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

The innovation function is dedicated to iterative search through experimentation. 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. The innovation motto is “Fail fast.”

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