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Does Scrum Apply To All Types Of Projects?

The Startup Magazine

It’s a regular question googled in relation to the adaption of scrum methodology, and still people are confused whether to implement it in their projects. All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. Articrafts: Product backlog, Sprint backlog.

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

Transformify

Those countries relying on agriculture or oil production tend to have high unemployment rates and wide skills gaps. Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy. Development teams working with these unknowns will often introduce "spikes" into the product backlog to complete discovery work and remove risks. More to come. Isaac Sacolick.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

It is bad legislation and it will add significantly to non-productive administrative and legal overhead and kill productivity within the technology sector in Colorado (including not only technology-related businesses, but virtually every business – and every consumer – who uses technology). Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. If we believe in founders enough, we should believe in their potential more than what they could be paying us to build the product.