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

Transformify

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. 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.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. No more, no less.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) When its receding, we rescope. Do you have a spec?

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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

I had a company in europe in the past and was very happy with the quality software we created. I have been able to successfully scale three different software development service centers offshore. Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

It’s more than just a distribution channel. At G2 , for example, we learned that a query syntax like “free [software name]” can’t be solved with a filter on a category page. Users don’t want to come to a page and click on a filter to see free software; they want access only to free solutions when they search for them.

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Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

ConversionXL

For example, the Jira Software team created a microsite dedicated to product-agnostic education about becoming an agile team. For example, Kanban and Scrum are two popular agile project management rituals. Distribution framework. The Agile Coach includes a mix of long-form articles, vidoes, and tutorials.

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. My favorite instance of this is scheduling software. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.