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

YoungUpstarts

The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs). by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. Buzzwords like data science, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics are being used by big companies with the ability to invest.

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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. Of course, the hiring needs vary a lot and are dependent on the business model, but a skills gap analysis reveals that more product managers, programmers, and sales and marketing experts will be needed in the near future.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

Said McClure,”We worship at the altar of ‘ lean ‘ a little too much when really we should just be running our businesses. Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

Lean 168
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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, IMVU’s early business model was made possible by Paypal’s easy self-serve and open access payment system. First, I really find it hard to imagine a circa 2009 web start-up that doesn't start with a huge technical date. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Does that help?

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Because it is important for kids in North East Ohio to understand what high tech is and why and how a solution may be scalable, students were allowed to pitch any idea that could be solved using a mobile/web solution. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Because it is important for kids in North East Ohio to understand what high tech is and why and how a solution may be scalable, students were allowed to pitch any idea that could be solved using a mobile/web solution. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon.

Lean 202