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Teamwork in Agile Software Development

A cabin in the woods for an entire day with your fellow colleagues. An afternoon at the zip line park with your colleagues. A morning of brainstorming followed by an outdoor barbecue. A day of volunteering at the local food bank with your agile software development team. These are just a few examples of types of teambuilding exercises you’ve likely experienced. The examples might not be exact, but the premise is the same – get everyone out of the office so they can relax, take a break from work, and get to know one another. While many of you might…

How to Improve the Value of your Home

Not everyone is set and ready to live in one house for the rest of their lives, a lot of people buy houses to get on the property ladder and see it as a stepping stone to make profit to move on to bigger and better ventures.  Making profit on a home is not easy and will take a lot of hard work to get the value increased to a substantial level.  If you are a first time owner and are looking for a place to start I have included some tips below to increase profits when you get around…

Why Your Business Should Be Active Online, Right Now

The world of business has never been easy in terms of finding success and whilst we do live in a world where it is easier than ever to set up your very own business, the stats on this that succeed are worryingly low. It is said that 56% of businesses will fail within their first 3 years, and of those that survive the 3 years, 44% will fail in the following 2 years. That means that if 100 businesses get set up this year, by 2023, just 24 will still remain. The reason I mention these negative statistics, is to…

What Skills Do Business Leaders Need?

There is a huge difference between someone who is good in business and someone who can be a leader in business. Business leaders are those with the power, the ones who command the highest salary and those who make decisions each and every day which have an impact on people’s lives. If you want to become a business leader then, it is vital that you understand exactly what it takes. Business leaders such as Sun Capital Partner’s highly successful and inspirational CEO Marc Leder, have a certain set of skills which set them apart from the people who may be…

Esther Nenadi Usman on the Business Lessons Learned from the Presidential Election in Nigeria in 2015

Governments are interesting and complicated concepts. Unlike businesses, which are measured by the profits they make at the end of each year, governments are measured in democracy. Yet, at the same time, they must be operated as a business, because a government only has a limited amount of resources available. This is why Ether Nenadi Usman believes it is so important that lessons are learned from past governments, but also that business lessons are applied. Presidential elections were held in Nigeria in 2015, and she believes, thanks to her background in education and finances, that there are key lessons to…

Here’s How to Create a Technology Plan for Your Small Business

Running a business in present day without taking advantage of the wide variety of technology at your disposal simply amounts to short-changing yourself. If you want your business to be able to keep up with the competition and deliver services with the level of efficiency your customers demand, you need to make use of the right type of technology. But if you want technology that can deliver the sort of results you require, you need to first draw up a technology plan. With a technology plan, you can easily decide what will work best for your business, such as choosing…