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

Transformify

What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Those countries relying on agriculture or oil production tend to have high unemployment rates and wide skills gaps. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL.

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Process Police

SVPG

Readers of my book and articles know how much I value a strong project manager. And one of the reasons I advocate for Scrum is that as a process it values this role of project manager as “impediment remover” (known as the Scrum Master role). It makes no sense to treat these all the same.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

I’ll admit it, the title of this article is downright curmudgeonly. But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. They’re turning you into Microsoft.

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Agile Marketing: How to Implement Scrum for Digital Marketing

ConversionXL

Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. Before we dive into the marketing applications, however, let’s briefly cover what scrum is and how it came to be.

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Should Your Startup Be an Agile Company

Women Entrepreneurs Can

The goal of this article is to look at this decision from a number of viewpoints and to try and guide startup founders towards a decision that will make the most sense for them. As informed by agile software development , some of the basic ideas behind running a startup the agile way include: Welcoming change. How Big Are You?

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

First read my short “ Version Infinity ” article. Insightful post, as always Dave (2010-06-19) # Fortuitous that I should read your article now as its given me some great pointers and refreshers on things I (should) already know. is what we call the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). so any further advice is appreciated.