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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. Scrum, Agile, Product Management.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). My first time at your blog.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Sun Microsystems is no more but in the ’90s and early ’00s the Java platform was the gold standard for server-side & workstation applications. Apple’s iOS App platform is most similar to Sun with Java, i.e. using a low/zero margin software business to propel a high-margin hardware business. Read More ».

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. At least in strongly typed languages such as Java.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

semanticuniverse.com

The shift in mindset happens when they consider a truly agile application, where e.g., the user interface is configured based on a query to the schema, while it is populated with data from the triple store. The application even continues to work well when new data, and new schema, are merged into the system.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. To probe for agility, you have to ask the candidate questions involving something that they know little about. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot.