Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

It’s becoming increasingly important for every business to have at least basic technology to run daily operations in the current day society. With new technology emerging, we can only imagine the changes it will bring along to the business platform. Technology makes it easier to connect with people all over the world.

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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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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies. The post Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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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. Agile innovation methods help companies transform digitally and make better decisions in the workplace by way of technology like contact center solutions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” Not, ‘what's the technology?’ In GE, technology used to be our lead, and instead we reframed that and started with the customer.”

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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. Adequate training is a must for the social media team.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. 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. Project/ Product Management.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

As tech seeps deeper into our work and the digital and real worlds combine, a whole new demand is rising for people who can bridge the ‘in-between’ space – a place that straddles both creativity and technology, and takes two very distinct areas of expertise and melds them together. If I have just described you and your predicament, read on.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Traditional office working is losing ground as the “best way” to work, and managers supporting it are either of a generation where using social technologies is seen as lazy or timewasting, or they have the wrong team – i.e. a team that requires intense scrutiny to keep it working. . After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

At the time, LA and Santa Clara were both the epicenter of the technology industry due to the significant overlap between the aerospace/military industry (Los Angeles) and the computing business (Silicon Valley). At the same time, the consumerization of the technology business made Silicon Valley the de facto capital of all things tech.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Product managers and designers generally work with developers every day to get their product ideas built, and when the product organization is not aligned with the technology organization, the result is almost never pretty. Realize that the optimal structure of the product organization is a moving target.

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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

Consumer demands are evolving, technology is growing bolder, and industry leaders are adapting. 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, as the name suggests, is modeled with adaptability in mind.

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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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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 12, 2012

I had never tried a spontaneous scrum like this before and it was great fun. For more on this topic, you can follow the HBS class blog (we do not have a final exam - just blogging!): Launching Technology Ventures. Below are the slides. Did I leave anything out? We kick off the new class in late January.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Most technology companies hit a wall with dev team scalability somewhere around ten developers. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

I've heard teams refer to a "pivot" of their technology stack (e.g. from Scrum to Kanban), or a "pivot" of a dedicated product team to work on something else (I guess this is supposed to make the team feel better about the new assignment, because pivots are something cool teams do). It is often used as a synonym for "change."

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SVPG

MARCH 17, 2011

Technology Knowledge (8) - What is the level of knowledge of the underlying technology? How current is his technology knowledge? Scrum) and understand his critical role in creating and managing the backlog of work? Industry/Domain Knowledge (10) - What is the product owner’s knowledge of the industry and domain?

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I run an 8-year old information technology company in Englewood, QSE Technologies, Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night. And you know why that is, but I think about the innovation in technology of what we're able to do now.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

If an implementation cant easily be estimated by a development team, if there is a unique technical challenge that needs discovery, if there is a new technology involved, or if a technology is being used in a new way then I place them in the "architecture and prototyping" quadrant. Strategic Technology. No Scrum Master?

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2024

Companies that embrace digital innovation and integrate these technologies into their core operations are better positioned to achieve sustainable growth and remain competitive. Businesses are investing in technology to support these models, such as collaboration tools, virtual private networks (VPNs), and secure cloud services.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills. Should you co-found your company with a software development shop?

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. In this model, the product manager is really a backlog administrator.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2011

You can provide flexibility in terms of choosing which technology solutions, languages, tools they can use. You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). Your team understands the technology it is using--sounds silly but when people use the new new hotness, they don't always understand it completely.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Which is similar, it has less of a SCRUM-my feel to it. It’s still hard, and so if you can create a place where you can organize those things and people can participate and share stuff and just save time and all that, that’d be great. You don’t have to mess with all these other filters and dimensions and what not.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Agile Scrum daily meetings have become a commonplace solution for development teams to hit and exceed targets. One Teams app in particular can be a godsend to teams forced into adopting remote work as standard and still maintain a working scrum methodology. ScrumGenius.

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SVPG

JUNE 5, 2015

At this point the product and technology organization has its marching orders, and they typically work the items from the highest priority on down. Anyway, the engineers will typically break up the work into a set of iterations - called “sprints” in the Scrum process. and 2) how much money or time will it cost?

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Lots of break-out areas and scrum bars. Ok, so I didn’t know what a scrum bar was before we had them (see below). It’s a place where we have technology to get our hands into, things like game consoles (yes a PS3 and a Wii), we’ll have iPads, Android devices, etc., Screens you can plug in to everywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2015

In recent years, this community has had greater access to cost-effective technological solutions. Alan Glazer has almost 15 years of experience as a product manager in the information technology field. He’s also a certified Scrum Product Owner, ITIL Foundation Certified and a practitioner of Pragmatic Marketing and Journey Mapping.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In addition to the obstacles illuminated by the study, senior systems engineer and technology author Karl Palachuk also noted several other issues with companies’ disaster recovery strategies, including: They may not have a DR plan in place at all. The plan includes unnecessary technology. The current plan is incorrect or unreliable.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

That makes it more of a ranking enabler than a ranking factor —even more so since machine-learning technologies like BERT help Google understand intent better. If you’ve never heard the term scrum or agile before, you’re behind. New features need to be written in user stories to fit the scrum framework. Know the process.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

The emphasis on speed and agility has never been more critical as consumer behaviors shift and technological advancements unfold rapidly. Meanwhile, technology plays a pivotal role in amplifying marketing speed and agility. Brands and marketers must adapt swiftly to stay ahead in a fiercely competitive environment.

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SVPG

JULY 31, 2013

I believe in technology. I love learning new technology. I love how technology constantly changes, and I love how what is now possible is constantly changing. This rapid and constant evolution in technology provides hope that we can continue to solve important problems for people and our world. I believe in giving back.

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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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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. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. No more, no less.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

As one engineer recently told me, “Once we had money in the bank and were near-profitable, I think we would have been well-served by increased up-front product and technology planning. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. He’s right.

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