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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. Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Game Development, Git, Google Maps API, HTML, HTML5, Internet Security, Javascript, jQuery / Prototype, Magento, Mobile App Testing.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

At the threshold of one of the most recognizable landmarks in human history — the sole survivor among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World , dating back nearly five thousand years — my host was engaged in heated debate with a rotating phalanx of functionaries.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence. No more, no less. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. When its receding, we rescope. Do you have a spec?

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. (Eventually, they may abolish specs altogether) Theres much more this team can do to eliminate waste in the way that they work and thereby iterate faster. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. Managed Services/Hosting. Data center hosting. Hosted telecom apps and VoIP services. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.