The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2012

Project managers construct elaborately detailed project plans that show business needs decomposed into tasks which are to be performed by specialists in a highly orchestrated effort. For one thing, they lag innovation, rather than lead it: prescriptive IT security guidelines circa 2007 were ignorant of the risks posed by social media.

Government 45

Government Best Practices Social Media Innovation 45

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. At the same time, we avoid academic results with little or no empirical support.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Even after gaining access, one needed to deal with the challenges of homogeneity across different assets in terms of decoding performance, size, metadata, and general formatting. Training Performance Media model training poses multiple system challenges in storage, network, and GPUs.

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Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 290

The Agile Manager

JULY 29, 2007

The highly-capable IT professional, one who has the ability to perform technical tasks as well as understand the business context, is already rare. This requires investing in capability development: skills, specialisation, innovation , and so forth. IBM Institute for Business Value, July 2007. But it goes beyond this.

Government 40

Government Open Source Latency Code 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

Thus leadership and its derivative characteristics - notably innovation and responsiveness - are the result of calculated, not wanton, risk taking. It provides guarantees for availability, performance and completeness for delivery of identified, regimented services or functionality. Traditionally, IT has been a risk assumer.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Execution risk is not simply the risk that things don't get done; e.g., that excessive days out of office prevent people from performing tasks by specific dates. Breakaway opportunities tend also to be highly sensitive to non-functional requirements, such as performance, scalability and security. Ballard was quoted by Anders, George.

Government 40

Government Retail Best Practices Technology 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. In 2007, businesses had started to become more distributed; customers were using multiple devices to access their files and there was a need to make this experience as smooth as possible.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52