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Why You Should Let Customers Prioritize Your Backlog
Scrum Inc. consultant and Team WIKISPEED CEO Joe Justice breaks down the benefits of having your customers prioritize your product backlog by telling you exactly what it is they want to see delivered.
by Joe Justice
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The Art of Doing Less: How to Maximize Product Development
Looking to focus in on the absolute priorities and ship better products faster? Scrum Inc. consultant Joe Justice shares a story from his work with Team WIKISPEED that serves as the perfect example of what's possible when you get lean and creative with your product development.
by Joe Justice
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The 5 Essential Requirements for Top-Tier Software Service Offerings
For today's software companies, the service you provide is often just as important as your product — and unless what you're offering hits five key requirements, you're doing it wrong. Professional services veteran Ken Lownie shares the criteria for services that simplify the sales process, decrease costs, improve customer satisfaction, and increase profitability.
by Ken Lownie
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The Keys to Creating Actionable Data Products
The sheer volume of information can oftentimes be overwhelming. Learn what to do (and not do) when building out your data products.
by jminton
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Spotify’s Secret for Competing with Apple, Amazon, and Google
How has Spotify managed to outperform industry giants Google, Apple, and Amazon? Scrum co-creator Dr. Jeff Sutherland reveals three ways Spotify's implementation of Agile development is catapulting it past the competition.
by Jeff Sutherland
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A Tale of Two Scrums: Agile Done Right and Agile Gone Wrong
In this week's Labcast, Co-Creator of Scrum Jeff Sutherland explains why Healthcare.gov was such a software development disaster, and why Spotify, on the other hand, is a terrific example of Agile done right.
by Jeff Sutherland
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The Biggest Challenge Software Companies Face this Year: Adopting a Services Mindset
Think your biggest priority is producing an incredible product? Wrong. It's delivering it to your customers along with the speed, support, and reliability of an incredible service.
by Josh Zywien
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Why Caching is Key to Optimizing Software Performance
There’s little doubt that performance matters to software buyers today. In this video, AKF Partners co-founders Marty Abbott and Mike Fisher explain how companies can use caching and other tactics to drive performance improvements.
by Marty Abbott and Mike Fisher
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Freemium Upsell Tactics: How to Hook Your Users & Drive More Business
Enticing hooks and ease of use — discover some of the key freemium upsell tactics Kareo founder and CEO Dan Rodrigues recommends for SaaS companies.
by Dan Rodrigues