The Agile Manager

APRIL 15, 2011

An executive of a corporate behemoth wants to shake up a troubled division. Being both impatient and aggressive, the executive hires somebody with a few start-ups under their belt - or acquires that person's current business - with the intent of having them take over the troubled unit to deliver start-up-like results. While it looks like a way to inject new strands into the corporate DNA, it may do little more than play kick the can the can on the problem.

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Energy Innovation Website Systems 40

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 14, 2011

Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu and I are continuing to craft and announce the technical program for C++ and Beyond (C&B) 2011 , and two more sessions are now posted. All talks are brand-new material created specifically for C&B 2011. Here are short blurbs; follow the links for longer descriptions. Scott will give a great new talk on “The C++0x Memory Model and Why You Care” that will cover topics of interest to anybody who cares about concurrency and parallel programming

C++ 40

C++ Programming Strategy Scalability 40