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

YoungUpstarts

The problem, is historically, the investment in time and resources required for traditional digital solutions can feel out of reach, and the type of programs used by corporations aren’t practical for SMBs for daily operations like reporting, inventory, or accounting.

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

Transformify

It is not surprising that the countries with low unemployment rates have adopted programs encouraging continuous education, industry diversification, and skills development. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Project/ Product Management.

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Are Agile Innovation Methods Right for Your Team?

The Startup Magazine

This means the holding of daily scrum meetings and the ability of all involved employees to talk about barriers and discuss status, as well as input from the product owner. HR would be responsible for promoting ongoing relationships with employees across multiple channels, including live chat, email, phone and/or social media.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Consider the classic project that was essential to the creation of extreme programming , the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System. Just a thought.

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Learn Corporate Communication Tricks In Slack

YoungUpstarts

People communicate in social networks, write each other emails or connect via video-calls. It is also convenient if you wish to manage remote team meetings or improve your Scrum productivity at any stage. The program provides an unlimited number of combinations of settings related to notifications. Configure Notifications.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. No more, no less. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

They exchange countless emails, and hes being constantly interrupted and being asked to clarify exactly what the spec means. The fourth spec exists only in these emails, which are changing the design in an ad-hoc fashion. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more.