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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: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

Do you have a bug database? There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. Do you fix bugs before writing code?

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Oracle real Application Clusters, Qualys QualysGuard, SAP Business Objects Broadcast Scheduler, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 8.5, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise XI, SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports 8.5, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.8,

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7 Account-Based Marketing Examples and Lessons

ConversionXL

Do this by creating Scrum-style squads with individual contributors from each department working together on specified accounts. How Workfront leveraged ZoomInfo’s B2B database to grow sales pipeline 90% YoY. When taking an ABM approach, remove the divide between sales and marketing. We had a data problem.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Data - Builds and runs our PostgreSQL-as-a-service database product. a tornado of razorblades.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You may not have that data in the database. Mark: Actually, we’re a database of mining accidents. Which is similar, it has less of a SCRUM-my feel to it. Then you can start rolling stuff out more officially and more broadly, but feel comfortable that you’re doing the right thing. Ryan: Yeah, I love those suggestions.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Plus, their javascript Library is real time so you get notifications on any database update. Need a database/back end solution?