The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2018

To wit: the ribbon interface that replaced the command menus in Microsoft Office 2007 was not met with enthusiasm. Inventing battery technologies and designing cars that are sufficiently different from the cars anybody else has made captures the imagination of financier and customer alike. For example, Tesla.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. A 2007 column in the WSJ pointed out that management by objective and total quality management have been replaced by a new trend: management by data. The increasing disruption caused by technology in everything from retail to education to NGOs will defy command and control management.

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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]. .

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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. The goal, the defined solution, the people, and the technologies constantly change.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

He trash-talks other technologies, companies, and people behind their backs, always finding something negative to say. He also attacks technologies that either don't leverage his own prior work, or don't conform to his own beliefs. Other engineers avoid new technologies, for fear of damaging ridicule from Bob. The No A **e Rule.

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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.

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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 23, 2018

I first became aware of Citroen’s as a child when my father pointed out a Citroen DS and told me about it’s advanced aerodynamics and technology, including the hydropneumatic suspension system. In the late 1960s Citroen bought Maserati and the Maserati Bora and Merak contain some Citroen technology.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. To that end, the Video and Image Encoding team in Encoding Technologies (ET) has spent the last few years rebuilding the video processing pipeline on our next-generation microservice-based computing platform Cosmos.

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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. Maybe it would not.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 29, 2007

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. Going back to our examples, the development of cutting-edge sell side products (e.g., 2 "Get Global. Get Specialized. Or Get Out."

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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. The pandemic affects everyone. Unfortunately, many more will not.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Translation: "Why did you break functionality that has been a foundational part of iOS since 2007?" Competing engines had invested hundreds of engineer years into more advanced Site Isolation technology than Apple had, and the iOS browser engine monoculture has put users at risk over and over again as a result. so capable.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

This includes everything from knowing which tools and technology stacks are approved for use, to how to integrate with existing systems and components, to what non-functional requirements are most important, to how solutions pass certification. 2 Technology job growth and salaries are on the rise worldwide.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

Being asked to do nothing more than assume risk for something such as availability or performance of technology is appealing from an IT perspective because it’s a space we know, or at least we think we know. play with shiny new toys) without taking us out of our comfort zone (the technology space versus the business space).

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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. Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019. The Death of Tick-Tock.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

The technology doesn’t work out as planned. This is no easy task, particularly in a business culture rooted in fixed-budgets and rigid planning cycles, buyers of industrial IT expecting that technology labor is interchangeable, and so forth. Developers come and go. Business people come and go. Business needs change.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

So, software is a part of a greater whole, and typically multiple generations of technologies must coexist peacefully and purposefully to provide a viable service. They were too wrapped up in silly technology debates (e.g., People forgot what SOA stands for. what’s the best ESB?' Successful SOA (i.e.,

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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.

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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.

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