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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

In light of this, software developers are beginning to cater to the digital transformation needs of SMBs. Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business. SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software.

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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. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics.

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Escaping the Design Trap in Agile Marketing

crowdSPRING Blog

As Marketer Gizmo explains : When they hear the phrase “agile marketing,” most people think of the Scrum methodology. Featuring sprints, daily standup meetings, and a public “to-do” list known as the Backlog, Scrum is one of the most popular frameworks for implementing departmental agility.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next. The breakthrough idea of agile is that software should be built iteratively, with the pieces that customers value most created first. Hes often felt that there was something missing.

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The Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs and Obsessive Collectors

Up and Running

To help you prep, I’ve collated a list of tools—for both web and mobile devices—that have helped me and others get things done, save time, and work more productively. At Palo Alto Software, we use it to manage our editorial calendar and the web development queue. Tools that will save you time. LastPass Password Manager.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.