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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. About 2% of the participants have SEO and Google Analytics skills, about 3% have stated that they possess digital marketing skills. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Project/ Product Management.

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[Review] Social Marketology

YoungUpstarts

Let me now highlight some of the book’s salient concepts: Managing the Team : Similar to “herding cats”, social media units can be managed like “scrum teams” where work is broken into small chunks with specific tasks assigned and monitored daily.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

In-house SEOs and consultants alike are routinely challenged to find new opportunities to expand organic traffic. In fact, new product features are the most underrated driver of SEO growth for large sites. SEO growth works differently for sites that scale with content (e.g., No conversation in SEO can exclude user intent.

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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

work is mostly drupal, wordpress, seo and php/lamp. Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore. They start by demoing their skills on my project at no cost for 1-2 days. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. Tom Nora.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Wille (2010-06-20) # I would say that the "User Story" template format of writing requirements pushed by the Scrum Agile methodology is the way to go, as it chunks functionality in a common, easily overviewable format with a common language. Yep, you bet I will get back to them for an SEO tune up.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

SEO and Analytics Tutorials. SEO for Startups â?? SEO Digger â?? SEO and campaign management tool. SEO Keyword Analysis Tool. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Lean Startup Circle â?? SEMRush â??