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MVP versus EVP: Is it time to introduce ethics into the agile startup model?

TechCrunch

The rocket ship trajectory of a startup is well known: Get an idea, build a team and slap together a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can get in front of users. However, building high-performing products and solutions that work for the majority isn’t enough anymore. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Inside Walmart’s generative AI journey

CIO

Once it came time for execution, a fully dedicated cross-functional product team was activated with high-performing leaders from product, engineering, data science, design, and the business. Underpinning their product-led approach and speed to market was executive leadership alignment and participation.

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Agile + Human-Centered Design: Better by Design

Mentormate

In the two decades since its introduction, the Agile methodology and its core idea of minimum viable product have risen to prominence in software development. These are compatible approaches that can yield products with better traction, higher value, and greater long-term results than Agile alone.

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Micro transformation: Driving big business benefit through quick IT wins

CIO

So Mahon is driving digital transformation in a different direction, doing minimum viable products (MVPs), or micro transformations, which are pieces of a system that are digitized in small increments. But by then, the business requirements had changed, “and frankly, it doesn’t work,’’ Mahon says.

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Agile Outsourcing Success Part 2: 5 Steps for Evaluating Agile Software Partners

Gorilla Logic

In Part One of Gorilla Logic’s blog series on Agile software development, we provided recommendations for how you can realize stellar results when leveraging an Agile outsourcing model. In Part 2 of this series, we share five steps for evaluating Agile software partners that set you up for success. .

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Appetiser’s co-founders discuss building client relationships and getting to MVP

TechCrunch

Our teams are built around efficiency: Small, client-embedded production squads comprising iOS, Android and back-end developers, as well as UX designers, product managers and QA/PM specialists. These squads work together in an agile environment and scale up or down based on the needs of the project.

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Clearing Out Your AppDev Backlog

Datavail

IT research and advisory firm Gartner has outlined 10 guiding principles for an organization to be considered truly agile. But even organizations that consider themselves agile may not be able to make a dent in their existing backlogs. Clearing out your AppDev backlog might be a challenge for the following reasons: No in-house team.