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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. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Game Development, Git, Google Maps API, HTML, HTML5, Internet Security, Javascript, jQuery / Prototype, Magento, Mobile App Testing.

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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. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology Will Affect Their Business Tomorrow

Hearpreneur

Being a digital marketing company, our world is being constantly changed by the changes happening in the world of the internet. Thanks to Paul Lewis, Scrum Explainer ! #10- If you’re in the industry that leverages the internet, technology can only of great help to you. #5- Shorten page load time and enhance user experience.

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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Since then, as a team, we’ve been fortunate enough to invest behind the vision of the founders of some tremendous consumer companies across messaging, social media, e-commerce, Internet of Things, marketplaces and gaming. Today, I’m even more thrilled as we have added two new people to our consumer team.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

Internet connectivity is still sparse but mobile phones are everywhere, with major players and familiar brands aggressively pursuing new markets. Perhaps most importantly, IT and Internet business are simply a breed of their own. The risk-reward tradeoff in finance should hold true in developing and unstable regions as well.

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Learn Corporate Communication Tricks In Slack

YoungUpstarts

It is also convenient if you wish to manage remote team meetings or improve your Scrum productivity at any stage. Excellent screen saver and Internet traffic. Insert a question on any topic and pin it in the chat. You can also use Standuply bot to run Slack poll for you. Configure Notifications.

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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.