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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.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Do you have a bug database? Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Simple editing. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Speaking from experience: My mate paid someone to build him a database-driven website. In addition to showing him what to do, I also pointed out the vulnerabilities and demonstrated how easy it was to login into the admin area of his site without knowing any username or password or database table or column names. So is database design.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Plus, their javascript Library is real time so you get notifications on any database update. Need a database/back end solution?