The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

1 The same applies to an Information Technology organisation that is core to achieving alpha returns : it needs the management practices to match high-capability people. In the 1970s it spawned tremendous innovation in personal computing technology. As Thomas Teal wrote succinctly , “Good management works miracles.”

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 25, 2009

The recent announcement is that Outlook 2010, like Outlook 2007, will use Microsoft Word for it’s rendering engine. Microsoft made great leaps forward with IE8, and just when I start thinking they deserve a nice pat on the back for embracing standards, they give me another reason to lose faith in them.

Engineering 40

Engineering Innovation Design Technology 40

Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

January 17, 2007: Dr. Mik Kersten, Dr. Gail Murphy and Robert Elves founded Tasktop. Just to put it in context, here are some other highlights from 2007: Apple iPhone was announced and launched. Here is the announcement about the founding of the company a couple months after the incorporation [link]. .

Open Source 98

Open Source Speed Games Software 98

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2012

Rules are not a solid foundation for management or governance, particularly in technology. 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. For another, rules create the appearance of control while actually subverting it.

Government 45

Government Best Practices Social Media Innovation 45

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. Carlota Perez’s 2002 theories summarized in Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. These cycles and bubbles of innovation happen every several decades.

Government 109

Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109

The Agile Manager

JULY 29, 2007

This requires investing in capability development: skills, specialisation, innovation , and so forth. structured credit products) will require business domain fluency as well as a high degree of technology skill. IBM Institute for Business Value, July 2007. The Wall Street Journal, 23 July 2007. 2 "Get Global. Or Get Out."

Government 40

Government Open Source Latency Code 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018.

AWS 117

AWS Airlines Latency Games 117

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. play with shiny new toys) without taking us out of our comfort zone (the technology space versus the business space). It plays directly to that which IT professionals want to do (e.g.,

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. Since Intel had no viable competition from a performance perspective, they had little incentive to continue to innovate at the same pace.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

2 Given the significant contribution of technology to just about every business solution, IT risk management is a critical practice. It is subsequently highly likely that there will be new or emergent technologies applied, if not outright invented, over the course of delivery. But IT risk management practices are not mature.

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