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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. Project/ Product Management.

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Using independent teams to scale a small company: A look at how games company Wooga works

The Next Web

Normally as a company grows this changes as management layers are added, and work simply becomes less efficient. This ensures a fast decision is always possible and the company can scale without top management becoming a bottleneck. In essence this is a delegation of power from central management to the teams.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. Scanning / Document Management. Project Management tools. Part 4- Closing.

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Product Fail

SVPG

NOTE: This article is a narrative version of a talk I’ve given for developers at the Craft Conference and for product managers and designers at Mind The Product. Anyway, the engineers will typically break up the work into a set of iterations - called “sprints” in the Scrum process.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise XI, SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports 8.5,