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·Jun 6, 2022

10 reasons to have a coach on your startup team

Startups are like a long match of tennis, or a concert performance where your competitors are ready to pounce on every beat you miss, or perhaps like an ultra-marathon. And just like sports and performance arts, coaches can help you and your team shine; and do your best work ever. …

Coaching

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10 reasons to have a coach on your startup team
10 reasons to have a coach on your startup team
Coaching

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epekworks

·Jun 3, 2022

How to build products like a scientist

Just like the beginning of every scientific discovery, every decision and step we take at a startup is based on some hypotheses. Often it’s the founders’ belief that the product is needed in the market, but once you get over the initial discovery and launch, you get into the mode…

Product Management

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How to build products like a scientist
How to build products like a scientist
Product Management

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epekworks

·May 31, 2022

Creative ways to conduct User Research

Most startups start as founders scratching their itch. With a bit of feedback from friends and family, we get a team together and start building. But 9 out of 10 startups fail within the first 2 years. Often this is because we build for too long after that first encouraging…

User Research

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Creative ways to conduct User Research
Creative ways to conduct User Research
User Research

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epekworks

·May 27, 2022

4 keys to establishing a continuous improvement environment

Continuous improvement is a phrase you hear all too often at businesses. From the CEO to the newest intern, everyone wants to improve their outputs, their sense of achievement, the bottom line, and the customer’s experience. So what makes for a continuous improvement environment? If you look at human development…

Continuous Improvement

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4 keys to establishing a continuous improvement environment
4 keys to establishing a continuous improvement environment
Continuous Improvement

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epekworks

·May 25, 2022

How to get started with Product Goals & KPIs

If you’re running a business or working for one, you must have heard about these things called Key Performance Indicators. Sometimes we go through extensive exercises to figure out the right KPIs, and have elaborate processes to follow up on them. …

Key Performance Indicator

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How to get started with Product Goals & KPIs
How to get started with Product Goals & KPIs
Key Performance Indicator

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epekworks

·May 23, 2022

The trick to creating strategic roadmaps

Love it or hate it, roadmaps are a reality of any tech venture. Sales, Tech, Product Management, everyone creates roadmaps. But often the roadmaps go stale or reality decides to deviate from the roadmap and we forget about them. This is often the case when the roadmap is created looking…

Strategy

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The trick to creating strategic roadmaps
The trick to creating strategic roadmaps
Strategy

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epekworks

·Feb 7, 2022

Joy in Agile-Land

This is part 3 of our Agile article series. Read part 1: The only problem with Agile and part 2: All about Agile Transformation. All articles can be read independently. Why are so many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Engineers, Product/Project Managers unhappy? Why is it that one of the fastest…

Agile

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Joy in Agile-Land
Joy in Agile-Land
Agile

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epekworks

·Dec 25, 2021

Reflection and Integration

Reflection is often defined as serious or focussed thought or consideration, as differentiated from mind-wandering and ruminating — both of which involve thinking but are more random or focussed but painful or circular. …

Reflections

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Reflection and Integration
Reflection and Integration
Reflections

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epekworks

·Jul 23, 2021

Agile Transformation is People Transformation

The Buddha said that nothing exists on its own and everything changes. His students called these the two core truths of all existence i.e. emptiness and impermanence. …

Agile Transformation

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Agile and People: The Transformation Will Happen Naturally
Agile and People: The Transformation Will Happen Naturally
Agile Transformation

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epekworks

·Jun 4, 2021

The only problem with Agile

Imagine Socrates, Plato, Confucius, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius coming together and writing one single book that represents the combination of their philosophies. Now imagine a one-pager version of this book. How much of it could you comprehend, let alone practice? That’s the problem with Agile. …

Agile

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The only problem with Agile
The only problem with Agile
Agile

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Balach

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