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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. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. 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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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

It’s more than just a distribution channel. That makes it more of a ranking enabler than a ranking factor —even more so since machine-learning technologies like BERT help Google understand intent better. 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.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

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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.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems. Most technology companies hit a wall with dev team scalability somewhere around ten developers. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager.