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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Post to a social media network. As a dynamic business leader and a Certified Scrum Master, Humberto leads a team of highly skilled software engineers and developers as CEO and co-founder at Concepta , providing tailored web and mobile applications to small-to-medium enterprises. Check whether a form has been filled in correctly.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective. One of The Social Network’s most memorable lines is when actor Justin Timberlake utters the words, “A million dollars isn’t cool.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. No more, no less. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said.

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. Oddly enough, although we cite that hiring is better because we are not restricted by location, we are restricted by our friend network.

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

Transformify

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. 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.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

” Then we needed a permit to go unescorted, or something. ”But my credentials are for a television network. English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop. . ”Why?

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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.