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

Transformify

Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. MySQL, PHP, Software Architecture, Software Development, Software Testing, SQL, Web Hosting, AngularJS.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

The agile software movement has made numerous contributions: continuous integration, which helps accelerate feedback about defects; story cards and kanban that reduce batch size; a daily stand-up that increases tempo. Think of the dozens of little API changes that are required when we want to pass new values through the system.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software. then all the problems will be solved.

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Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

Startup Lessons Learned

A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. Some of these benefits are shared by agile systems which have continuous integration but large batch releases, but others are unique to continuous deployment. Thats because of the anatomy of a release. I just dont believe it.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0"). Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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Netflix's Advice on Moving to Amazon Web Services

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To scale the service, Netflix has moved its API and other operations to Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the past several months. Cockcroft says business agility and the inability to predict capacity are the main drivers for moving to AWS. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. account sign-up and billing systems," Cockcroft said.

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