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Fundamentals

The Agile Manager

As a result, the race to improve digital capabilities for small merchants is now on, so there is reason to expect that considerably more innovation will be accessible to small merchants on a metered rather than a R&D basis. Testing, treatments and analytics may result in far less draconian methods of containment.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup. Ilya Grigorik. Ilya Grigorik. Paul Irish.

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Knowledge Versus Wage Work in Software Development

The Agile Manager

"Increasing numbers of people who had formerly been self-employed in workshops and cottage industry, often on a subcontracting basis, assumed new roles as part of an emerging wage-earning class. Labor increasingly became viewed as a commodity to be bought and sold. Alternatively, one firm's primary labor force may be another's secondary.