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Why Everyone Wants To Be Agile

YoungUpstarts

Many project management frameworks are rooted in agile, such as scrum, kanban, lean, and extreme programming (XP). Agile methodology typically breaks projects down into smaller increments to be worked on in short time frames (“sprints,” if you’re using scrum). Regular self-assessment and adjustment of teams and project.

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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. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics. in 2013, Benin is among the countries that have made significant progress in the recent years.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? – Get Agile with Rally Release 5. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. SW Courses.

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Why Successful Product Management Involves More Than Spectacular Specs

YoungUpstarts

In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology.