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Why Successful Product Management Involves More Than Spectacular Specs

YoungUpstarts

Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Development teams must build a muscle for reliable estimation and delivery, whether through Scrum velocity metrics or their own approach.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

In 2016, SMBs used an average of 4.8 As a dynamic business leader and a Certified Scrum Master, Humberto leads a team of highly skilled software engineers and developers as CEO and co-founder at Concepta , providing tailored web and mobile applications to small-to-medium enterprises. apps to manage their operations, up from 3.8

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Escaping the Design Trap in Agile Marketing

crowdSPRING Blog

The biggest trend in marketing in 2016 has been the idea of “agile marketing.” As Marketer Gizmo explains : When they hear the phrase “agile marketing,” most people think of the Scrum methodology. Although undeniably useful, Scrum was originally created for software development.

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

Transformify

20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics. All participants have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Project/ Product Management.

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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

His nickname is Tank and I wouldn’t have minded having him as a teammate in my rugby playing days either, holding me up in the scrum! He’s the cofounder and former CTO of LivingSocial, and over the past few years has angel invested in companies such as Shyp, LendingHome, Walker & Co, and also sits on the board of a YC alumni ThinAir.

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The Hard Life of an Optimizer – Yuan Wright [Video]

ConversionXL

Here’s another presentation from ConversionXL Live 2015 (sign up for the 2016 list to get tickets at pre-release prices ). ConversionXL Live 2016: March 30th to April 1st. Does that sit into the Agile scrum team? Are they bearing the scrum, bearing the team or everywhere. We’re asking a lot of questions.

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