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The Missed Opportunity of Agile SaaS

The Missed Opportunity of Agile SaaS

By Joel York on October 13, 2015

As the launch date approaches for Markodojo, my agile marketing SaaS startup, I’ve been thinking a lot about how my SaaS experiences have shaped my thinking on agile management, and visa versa. SaaS and agile present complementary aspects that enable a uniquely symbiotic relationship. Agile aims to help businesses increase responsiveness to customer needs, while […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged agile, agile marketing, agile saas, Agile software development, saas, SaaS Marketing

Sorry, But Your Start-Up’s Team Isn’t Actually Any More Agile Than the Big Guys.  Why You Really Still Can Win.

Sorry, But Your Start-Up’s Team Isn’t Actually Any More Agile Than the Big Guys. Why You Really Still Can Win.

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 22, 2012

Perhaps the biggest misimpression/misunderstanding I had about Fortune 500 tech companies and start-ups was that start-ups are more agile at developing product. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.  Every tech leader has tons of talented engineers.  In fact, every tech leaders has more surplus talented engineers — surplus — that you have in your entire […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged agile, saas, Scrum | 1 Response

80-20: the deadly cause of IT project failure

80-20: the deadly cause of IT project failure

By Martijn Linssen on March 26, 2012

There seems to be a rush of IT failure topics these days, all trying to find the Holy Grail of project failure. While I hold that this is a world of AND and AND, not OR and OR, I do see a major cause for project failure for the last decade: shifting from serial processing […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged 1.0, agile, application development, architecture, business exceptions, business rules, management, pareto, Pareto principle, project management, Scrum, Supply Chain | 1 Response

Design thinking: A New Approach To Fight Complexity And Failure

Design thinking: A New Approach To Fight Complexity And Failure

By Chirag Mehta on December 14, 2011

Photo credit: String Theory by Michael KrigsmanThe endless succession of failed projects forces one to question why success is elusive, with an extraordinary number of projects tangling themselves in knots. These projects are like a child’s string ga…

Posted in Design, Featured Posts | Tagged agile, cognitive psychology, Creativity, design thinking, enterprise 2.0 | 2 Responses

rPath And Collabnet Partner To Add Agility To Cloud Deployments

rPath And Collabnet Partner To Add Agility To Cloud Deployments

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 30, 2010

rPath (see previous CloudAve coverage), the North Carolina based company offering deployment and maintenance solutions across physical, virtual and cloud environments, has partnered with Collabnet, whose popular platform is used for distributed software development, to bring in agility to cloud application deployment. They announced their partnership today with the hope that they can deliver an […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged agile, agility, cloud computing, Collabnet, devops, enterprises, ops, rpath

The Agile Board

The Agile Board

By Mark Suster on May 12, 2010

I recently wrote an article on how to respond to board members between meetings.  I basically took some time on a weekend and just hacked out what was on my mind.  Two people whom I respect (Nivi Babak and Brad Feld)  added commentary that made me want to come back and clarify my thoughts.  If […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged agile, agile board, board meetings, Entrepreneurship, management, startups

United Nations Embraces OpenSource and Agile… Not!

By Ben Kepes on October 8, 2009

I read the other day that the United Nations is currently embarking on a project with the aim of overhauling its ERP systems. This project apparently has a USD300 million budget and according to the tender document; presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to equip the organization with twenty-first century techniques, tools, training and technology The UN […]

Posted in Enterprise, General, Strategy | Tagged agile, crowdsourcing, erp, nimble, open source, sap, united nations

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