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4 tips to make any team agile

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by on July 10, 2015 at 6:44 pm
Posted In: agile, agile development, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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The goal of agile programming is to provide early and continuous delivery of valuable software. But it’s not so easy to implement methodologies that can deliver on the agile promise, and the blame typically lands on people: they’re just not the tech elite. Agile is an iterative software development methodology, as opposed to the more linear traditional methods. This iterative approach allows developers, managers and users to collaboratively create the project requirements as they go, as opposed to the traditional linear method where requirements are agreed in advance. Agile is more of a mindset than a ruleset, so it can…

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Wix unveils WixEd, an online Web master training course for beginners

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by on July 10, 2015 at 5:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Today, Wix is launching a free online course dubbed WixEd for those who want to learn more about being a Webmaster. In addition to teaching basic Web design (using Wix tools, of course), WixEd also offers up two courses on business and marketing. The aim is to get interested folks to start their own Web design business. WixEd offers all the basic tools necessary — like SEO training, accounting and Web design using Wix products — to make that happen. Speaking to TechCrunch, WixEd program leader Yuval Finkelstein says “all of the strengths that online marketing had two years ago are…

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Microsoft announces Azure Data Catalog, the GitHub of cloud-based data analytics

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by on July 10, 2015 at 4:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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In an attempt to create a central point of reference for enterprise data, Microsoft is introducing Azure Data Catalog. Still in preview, it’s a cloud tool for registering and finding data repositories registered by companies. When a data set is registered, the company can assign it metadata and descriptors. As users discover the data, they can add their own tags or descriptions to help future users find it. If a data set becomes particularly useful, users can connect it directly to data visualization tools. The data is all crowdsourced; Azure isn’t pulling anything in automatically. As Microsoft puts it, “any…

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Laugh your way into the weekend with @TheNextWeb’s Tickle Challenge

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by on July 10, 2015 at 4:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables

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It’s Friday, the gateway to two days of decadence and debauchery. If you’re not doing something you’ll regret on Monday, you’re probably not doing it right. Or, you know, you could just be watching Netflix and sitting on your sofa… To ease you into whatever you’re doing, we present a little thing we made at the office today – the TNW Tickle Challenge: Happy Friday from The Next Web HQ… #TICKLECHALLENGE!PS. Follow us on Snapchat 🙂 – 'thenextweb' Posted by The Next Web on Friday, 10 July 2015 Only in Amsterdam could a CEO tickle his employees and end up with…

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Into marketing? The Next Web is hiring full-timers and interns!

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by on July 10, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Yes, you heard it right: The Next Web is growing incredibly fast. In the past year alone, our Marketing team has grown from 3 to ~12 and to support our growth we’re looking for marketing wizzes to join our current team. Why work in marketing at The Next Web? We embrace data driven marketing and continuously test our strategies to determine whether we are achieving the results we desire. This means that we’re always looking for new ways to optimize TNW for our users to reach our goals. Working at The Next Web means you’ll get to be a part of one…

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