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Does Scrum Apply To All Types Of Projects?

The Startup Magazine

It’s a regular question googled in relation to the adaption of scrum methodology, and still people are confused whether to implement it in their projects. All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. When Scrum can be followed. SCRUM METHODOLOGY.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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

The Next Web

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. Give those teams the resources they need to be successful — both in business development and tech personnel. Their answers are below. Build Trust.

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The Best Project Management Framework for Startups

The Startup Magazine

The Agile methodology is well-suited to the ever-changing startup environment due to its iterative nature and short cycles called sprints. Scrum for Managing Team Interactions Scrum is a perfected orchestration of teamwork that arises within the vast canopy of Agile.

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5 Types Of Business Strategies To Consider Before Opening Up Shop

YoungUpstarts

OKRs can be beneficial for managers as well since they enable you to conduct each team member’s performance review based on their overall quarterly objectives and key results. One of the major benefits of using a SOM approach is that product development costs are drastically decreased and technical risk is also reduced.

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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. Monthly brand voice reviews should also be conducted.

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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

While the optimism is a great trait in many ways, it can be a huge cause of frustration between co-founders when the technology takes longer to develop than originally estimated. At my last startup we eventually started using a process called "scrum," which is basically a framework for managing agile engineering projects.

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