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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

Back in 2003, that was the context for the so-called weblog, which would shortly be elided to blog. The first version of WordPress was released in May 2003 and became the official version of b2, an older project that had been abandoned. Massive changes often begin as ephemeral, uncertain ideas. ” The good side of spam.

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

CTOvision

Director of Product Management, Cloudera. Director of Product Management, Cloudera. She also pioneered Deterministic GC which was productized as JRockit Real Time at BEA Systems (bef. Before joining NASA in 2003, Dan worked on highly parallel applications for the Department of Defense (DoD). Eddie Garcia.

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Scrum: Get Your Requirements Straight Before Coding

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This 2003 blog post was cited by Jim Coplien's 2008 presentation on the history of Scrum as organizational patterns , also worth reading. Jeff Sutherland's Scrum Blog: 11 March 2003. Here I am talking about product companies. The product manager (as Product Owner) is part of the Scrum for this reason.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Director of Product Management, Cloudera. Director of Product Management, Cloudera. She also pioneered Deterministic GC which was productized as JRockit Real Time at BEA Systems (bef. Before joining NASA in 2003, Dan worked on highly parallel applications for the Department of Defense (DoD). Eddie Garcia.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. The question of measuring productivity is a famous one, and the best minds in the industry have concluded it cant be done. Martin Fowler wrote an article in 2003 titled Cannot Measure Productivity. Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity?

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A Day in the Life of a Business-Aligned Cybersecurity Leader

Tenable

A SANS Institute paper from way back in 2003 articulated the challenges, which remain current to this day: "[CISO] responsibilities are unlike any other in the C-suite, not even CIOs have this scope.". It's all in a day's work. But even without a formal committee it's possible to reach out and connect across the organization.

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AoAD2 Practice: Energized Work

James Shore

Creating and communicating the team’s purpose is the responsibility of team members with product management skills. DeMarco and Lister 2003] (p. They are projects aimed at putting out products of monumental insignificance. Forecasting. To be compelling, the team’s purpose also needs to be achievable.