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

Transformify

Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. Scrum, Agile, Product Management.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Some startups, on reaching this stage, declare “we’ve got to grow up and act like a real company now” and immediately try to switch to heavy-handed tactics. Don’t do that stuff.

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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 Resources

www.vccafe.com

PHP-FPM (a patch for php4/5 to greatly improve FastCGI SAPI usage). cakePHP (PHP). Drupal (PHP). Kohana (PHP). Zend Framework (PHP). WordPress (PHP). Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Microsoft WebMatrix -Â Web server, database, and ASP.NET and PHP. Banana Scrum â??

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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

Pat Patrick (2010-06-20) # Im programming in PHP and Java and designing relational and object oriented data bases since 12 years and I do absolutely agree with Drews comments (#50). Thanks for sharing your proven experience! Pat Sheridan (2010-06-20) # Thank you! This is great info. Its really nice of you to share this.