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Are you looking for solid actionable resources with great tips that will help your entrepreneurial journey? In this post, I have listed 10 ebooks which combine opinions and experiences of industry leaders and are a must-read for every entrepreneur. Have a look. 1. Intercom on Product Management: By compiling Intercom’s best content on [...]
In this week’s edition of Expert’s Thought on Agile Project Management, we are in conversation with Kannan Subbiah, Agile Thought Leader and CTO, MF Utilities. Let’s read what Kannan has to say about agile methodology and its impact on managing teams. Kannan, please tell us something about your organization and where it stands in terms [...]
Transforming from Waterfall to Agile involves a lot of hard work. Just like you can’t walk into the White House, you can’t simply decide to be agile. In his book Waterfall to Agile: A Practical Guide to Agile Transition, Arie Van Bennekum writes ‘transitioning from waterfall to agile is proving difficult for many people who can see the [...]
Organizing resources, collaborating with team members and tracking project progress – all this are part of a project manager’s daily grind. But today there are hundreds of competitive solutions available online which are making project management easier everyday. Listed below are seven popular tools, measured by their user base. [...]
Scrum and Kanban lead to the evolution of Scrumban. It combines the best of both worlds and shares several similarities with Scrum while borrowing cultural nuances from Kanban. It is a hybrid environment which is used for agile product lines with frequent interruptions. Scrumban uses fixed-size pieces of work for development and tracks [...]
As a part of the VenturePact agile series, we have been regularly sharing agile development posts. Keeping up the same agile spirit, today we begin an interview series, which will bring to you the experts’ take on agile/scrum methodology. As the first interview, we present to you our conversation with Nada Aldahleh, Co-Founder and CEO at [...]
Story Mapping is a great agile technique which helps product owners visualize the bigger picture while keeping all user story elements in perspective. It also helps stakeholders stay updated about the project progress. Thus, optimizing story maps is important, especially when you are working with distributed teams where coming together [...]
Does the product you are trying to build resemble that of a popular company like Uber, eBay or Facebook? If your answer is yes, there is a good chance you’ll be able to find an ‘off the shelf’ script or template to build the initial version. This means that you will not need to hire a full time developer, just a freelancer for a few [...]
After being a buzzword for years, Agile has now become the go-to development methodology for most entrepreneurs. However, if your development team is remote, working on agile is a challenge. In this article, we highlight some conflicts which arise while you are working with distributed agile teams. Let’s identify these issues and [...]
Agile development has become a standard approach for most software development teams today. Most customers at VenturePact are becoming more particular about implementing Agile and Scrum methodologies in their product development process. But many people do not know how software development has evolved in the last 30 years. In this post, [...]