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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

After the success of the books that Brian and I had written, which we got a cut of royalties for, our management decided that we should write books as our day job, and we assembled a team of experts to write up best practice guides as books in the Sun Blueprints series.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Service businesses grew at scale, and the reaction to scale is hierarchy, process, and command & control. Bureaucracy was discredited.

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50 Resources And Tools To Turbocharge Your Copywriting Skills

Smashing Magazine

With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. 2001 Greatest Headlines Ever Written. Not strictly aimed at copywriters but still a good overview of the steps in the writing process. My favourite part of the writing process is cleaning the apartment.”. More after jump!

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Netflix: A Culture of Learning

The Netflix TechBlog

our first investments in tooling to support A/B tests came way back in 2001. Early experimentation tooling at Netflix, from 2001. Wherever possible, A/B test results or causal inference studies are an expected input to this decision making process. In fact, not only are test results expected for product decisions?—?it’s

Education 246