Ignoring problems also takes away a learning opportunity. Mistakes are typically due to human oversight. If the mistake is not caught in a timely manner, similar mistakes are likely to keep happening because the person committing the mistake hasn’t had a chance to learn from it.Agile Gone Wrong
I’d encourage more founders to give themselves the same challenge to focus their time, team and resources on getting to profitability before firing up powerpoint and hitting the road for a raise. You may surprise yourselves with how attainable that goal can be, and how empowering that independence can feel.Before You Pitch Your Next Round, Try This Instead
By being connected to each other night and day and by consuming and sharing infinite and self-updating content, we are not only becoming more shallow ourselves. We are also willingly investing our time to help every person around us become equally as shallow.The Right to Stay Offline
Unlike “waterfall projects”, scrum projects are made of so-called sprints, which are portions of a project that usually last for a defined number of weeks in which a multidisciplinary team works together on a challenge.How to Mash-Up and Benefit from PM and the Design Thinking Process
If your cash is limited, try to see what you and your team are already doing and then hire people to take those jobs. It may sound counterintuitive, but if you’re already doing it presumably it needs to be done, you have a good sense of the type of skills required to do it, and you can bring someone on-board and get them up to speed quickly. That then frees you up to focus on tasks that can’t be done by someone else.Early Challenges: Making Critical Hires
