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Opendoor acquires Seattle startup Pro.com and Skylight, will shut both platforms down

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” San Francisco-based Opendoor is a leader in the growing iBuyer market that includes others such as Seattle companies Zillow Group and Redfin. The company, which went public last year via a SPAC deal, is now operating in more than 40 markets and acquired a record 8,494 homes in the second quarter of 2021.

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Getting Value From Your Data Scientists

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To create real business value with data scientists, top management must learn how to manage them effectively. ". Neither data scientists nor managers are very good at speaking the other’s language, and executives compound the problem by the way they manage data scientists. ". In September 2014, Jeanne G.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

As a result, many new car companies are created and competition increases, says Tobias Altehed, who leads Volvo Cars’ digital organization and sits on the company’s extended management team. Tough system change Replacing core systems that comprise the backbone of the company is never easy.

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Attend the 6 Feb @Cloudera Federal Forum: For the Analyst, Data Scientist, #BigData Technologist in DC

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Matt Carroll – General Manager, 42Six, a CSC Company. Marshall – Deputy Program Manager, NSG Program Management Office, IT Service Directorate, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Sapan “Soup” Shah – Technical Director, 42Six a CSC Company. 10:00 AM Break.

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Simple Agile Product Development - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

These five individuals often benefit from a sixth, the Project Manager , who orchestrates this conversation and has the role to drive the team to a shared understanding of the priorities, feasibility, and approach. The Project Manager needs a point of escalation if he/she believes the team isnt closing in on a shared understanding.

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Federal Big Data Community Convenes 6 Feb at Apache Hadoop Forum

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Matt Carroll – General Manager, 42Six, a CSC Company. Sapan “Soup” Shah – Technical Director, 42Six a CSC Company. Prior to Cloudera, his most recent role was as vice president and general manager of enterprise security at HP. Eli Collins – Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO, Cloudera.

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Audience blog and Twitter reflections on Getting Results from Crowdsourcing event

Trends in the Living Networks

The surprise was that after I gave my keynote at Cisco Insights 2010 conference this afternoon (in which I talked extensively about crowdsourcing), Lesley walked up and said hi. hollingsworth Good point @lukerides about opportunity to outsource project management. Some use basecamp - can anyone nail the project manager issue?