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Why Successful Product Management Involves More Than Spectacular Specs

YoungUpstarts

by Will Koffel , head of the Google Cloud Startup Program in the Americas. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Will Koffel leads the Google Cloud Startup Program in the Americas.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

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English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop. (Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And then I did a brief stint at AutoNation, America's largest automotive retailer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And we launched Message From America with Sony, where you could come in and tape a DVD and send it to your soldier or sailor or marine that was being deployed. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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The Work/Home Möbius Strip

crowdSPRING Blog

The same goes for home: dinnertime should be sacrosanct (or damn close to it), but dates, movies, even favorite TV shows should be on the calendar and should have the same level of importance in your life as the daily scrum or the weekly roadmap. America’s founding entrepreneurs: revolution at work. Take vacations.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Wille (2010-06-20) # I would say that the "User Story" template format of writing requirements pushed by the Scrum Agile methodology is the way to go, as it chunks functionality in a common, easily overviewable format with a common language. I ended up hiring these guys out of New York:They cost $400.00