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

Transformify

What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad.

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[Review] Social Marketology

YoungUpstarts

Unfortunately, many books, articles, blogs and podcasts on social media focus too heavily on the “feel good” factor of success stories. Monthly brand voice reviews should also be conducted. Do also develop documents for listening, channels, resources, and content.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. Please leave feedback!) Do you have a spec?

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Developing Strong Product Owners

SVPG

In my last article I discussed the role of the leader of the product organization. Your company needs the strongest product team possible, and if you don’t develop your team and provide growth opportunities, there are other companies that will. How current is his technology knowledge? his ability).

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Should Your Startup Be an Agile Company

Women Entrepreneurs Can

They are allowed to develop organically which, unfortunately, can have some negative consequences well into the future. The goal of this article is to look at this decision from a number of viewpoints and to try and guide startup founders towards a decision that will make the most sense for them. Hence, this article.

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Factors in Structuring a Product Organization

SVPG

In this article I wanted to enumerate the factors that I look at in coming up with my recommendation. You would be surprised at how far down the list this gets pushed for many companies (mostly due to the strength of the influences below) but aligning with the user and customer has very real benefits for the product and the team.

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