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

Transformify

Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. About 2% of the participants have SEO and Google Analytics skills, about 3% have stated that they possess digital marketing skills.

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

Scalable Startup

work is mostly drupal, wordpress, seo and php/lamp. Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore. They start by demoing their skills on my project at no cost for 1-2 days. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. Tom Nora.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

PHP-FPM (a patch for php4/5 to greatly improve FastCGI SAPI usage). cakePHP (PHP). Drupal (PHP). Kohana (PHP). Zend Framework (PHP). WordPress (PHP). Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). SEO and Analytics Tutorials. SEO for Startups â?? SEO Digger â?? StaticMatic.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Pat Patrick (2010-06-20) # Im programming in PHP and Java and designing relational and object oriented data bases since 12 years and I do absolutely agree with Drews comments (#50). If anybody needs software work done (websites, business automation or guidance in SEO and online marketing) I would be happy to help. This is great info.