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

Transformify

The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. Project/ Product Management. Scrum, Agile, Product Management.

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Vision Pivots vs. Discovery Pivots

SVPG

from Java to Ruby), or a "pivot" of their development process (e.g. from Scrum to Kanban), or a "pivot" of a dedicated product team to work on something else (I guess this is supposed to make the team feel better about the new assignment, because pivots are something cool teams do). It is often used as a synonym for "change."

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

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Product owners and technical managers also need to interpret this scenario properly. crisis management. (3). it management. (27). product management. (23). project management. (42). Dear Product Manager, Think Markets Before Product.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise XI, SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports 8.5,

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

It is so true, but non-tech managers usually try to ignore the facts away. I have never seen (or even heard of) a normal team in your average large organization ever learn to manage technical debt dynamically. At least in strongly typed languages such as Java. You'll still waste a lot of time attempting to debug them.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. Especially the first section. I havent been able to do that on any of my projects yet!

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Task Management. Project Management Tools. t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Scanning / Document Management.