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These can be useful exercises, certainly to the business leaders who’ve got to find their customers or compete against rivals with slimmed down cost structures. Is brick-and-mortar retail dead? One way its retail bank makes money by converting deposits into loans. Are cities dead? Is cash dead? These are less useful.

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SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

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Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . As a result, many teams have 18 developers and only one QA,” said Heather Munoz, Head of the Retail Brokerage Practice at E*Trade, on a recent podcast interview. . The False Developer Quality Equivalency .

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SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

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Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . As a result, many teams have 18 developers and only one QA,” said Heather Munoz, Head of the Retail Brokerage Practice at E*Trade, on a recent podcast interview. . The False Developer Quality Equivalency .

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