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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. Consequentially, the bias often results in micromanaging the product delivery organization. Fallacy #6: We Need a PMO for Product A PMO?—?short

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Andrew Chen on finding the “fresh powder” in growth

Intercom, Inc.

He’s written more than 650 of them over the past decade and has been featured and quoted in The New York Times, Fortune, Wired and Wall Street Journal. Growth teams commonly make the mistake of picking random, off-the-shelf KPIs without thinking about how they all fit together. Adam Risman: Andrew, welcome to Inside Intercom.

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Podcast Q&A: Dropbox’s viral growth, Uber’s tricky funnels, and future growth channels

Andrew Chen

Collaborative tools like Dropbox and Slack benefit from built-in virality , where teams adopt them together – and they represent a tidal wave of software products that truly understand the relationships between people. First zero in on a strategy for achieving your desired outcome , and then pick high quality metrics to validate your tests.

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Build Iron Man Suits, Not Terminators | Carl Ryden, PrecisionLender | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

And as we’re working through, building our product, we released it January 1st 2010 and since then we’ve added probably 250 banks around the world. We built a product that serves commercial bankers, the commercial relationship managers and they’re an interesting lot. I spend some time with them I say.