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Signs that it’s time to leave a company…

Adrian Cockcroft

I saw this play out while I was at Sun Microsystems as the dot com bubble burst in 2001–2004. When companies transition from high growth to slow growth or begin shrinking it isn’t just a small change, it needs a fundamentally different approach to management and the culture of the company.

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What I Read in 2011

Tim Kadlec

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane. Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halverson. ” and “The Death and Life of the Great American School System” are at the top for non-fiction (excluding the web-related ones). Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke.

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. VPTCS model © Élie Sloïm — Éric Gateau — 2001 — www.opquast.com. VPTCS model © Élie Sloïm — Éric Gateau — 2001 — www.opquast.com.

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Investing in Strategic Capability versus Buying Tactical Capacity

The Agile Manager

Because the assets that drive competitiveness through operations are delivered through a high-capability IT staff, unit cost minimisation is not a viable strategy if IT is to drive alpha returns. Strategic IT is therefore an investment in capability. Clearly, global sourcing is no longer a simple cost equation.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. Static site generators have several strategies to address long build times , including build caching, incremental builds, dynamic persistent rendering, and website sharding. Online, and live. Dynamic functionality.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

This approach can be expressed in more formal way by the following equation: where is the data available for analysis, is the space of a retailer’s actions and decisions, is an econometric model defined as a function of actions and data, and is the optimal strategy. Konstan, and John Riedl, 2001. Karypis, J. Guo, M.Fraser, 2009.

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