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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

Like the others, it grew out of seeing problems in practice, this time the problems of mistakenly thinking that implementing scrum is the same as become agile. I was the only person from software or finance. They taught leadership, not just scrum. Are you saying there’s no place for scrum, for instance?

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

Transformify

The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Scrum, Agile, Product Management.

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

YoungUpstarts

This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. This also creates a place for hosting all of your data. With BI capabilities, departments can now get rid of spreadsheets and visualize data through a central dashboard.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. About a year after he got started, he was ready to raise a venture financing. Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

In the same vein, because not as many entrepreneurs in Los Angeles worked at companies like Google or Facebook, a lot of them have not really gotten the training they need to properly communicate requirements, run a scrum, or conduct A/B testing. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

The risk-reward tradeoff in finance should hold true in developing and unstable regions as well. 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.

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

Up and Running

You can create an unlimited number of accounting reports, create and send unlimited invoices, scan receipts, manage your personal finances, and get access to free email support. Many free accounting and invoicing tools are barebones and completely unsuited to mobile-viewing. Wave is different.