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Tech Moves: Google engineering director Ankur Sinha joins Remitly as CTO

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Ankur Sinha , who spent the past two years as an engineering director at Google, joined remittance company Remitly as its chief technology officer. Founded in 2011, the company offers a mobile platform for sending money internationally, used heavily by immigrants and their families. Remitly went public in September.

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Tech Moves: Xamarin co-founder leaves Microsoft; OfferUp adds execs; and more

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MARCH 3, 2022

He was co-founder and chief technology officer at Xamarin, a mobile app development platform founded in 2011. Murdock Charitable Trust as CEO and executive director. — Andy Hickl , another former Microsoft leader who was principal group program manager for AI in Azure, joined Accenture as managing director in Seattle.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotechnologies COO departing; Sana adds leaders; and more

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APRIL 11, 2023

He was first hired by Adaptive as chief technology officer. Rubinstein joined Adaptive in 2011 as senior vice president of corporate and business development and became president seven years later. As part of the transitions, Sana’s longtime chief medical officer, Sunil Agarwal , will step down from the company.

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CIO Blogs for July 2011

A CIO's Voice

JULY 19, 2011

How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 1 by Isaac Sacolick. C-Level Executives CIO CIO/CTO IT Process Leadership Management Chief Information Officer CIO Leader CIO role corporate innovation CTO culture executive IT IT executive IT Management leader leadership style metrics Project Management technology'

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The most successful accelerator cohort ever: How this Techstars Seattle class produced 3 unicorns

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Techstars Seattle 2011 cohort. In 2011, the world was still recovering from the financial crisis a couple of years earlier. I was also lucky to be part of the Techstars Seattle 2011 cohort with my startup, EveryMove, that I co-founded with Russell Benaroya. Techstars Seattle 2011 had a unicorn-rate of 30%.

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Next-gen battery startup Sila breaks ground on Washington facility with $100M in DOE support

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Cantwell pushed for the program that is providing $100 million each to Sila and Group14 to establish their manufacturing sites. Sila launched in 2011 and is based in Alameda, Calif. There are only three U.S. sources for silane, with the other two being REC’s facility in Butte, Mont., and Wacker Chemie in Charleston, Tenn.

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How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 1 - Social.

Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 20, 2011

Monday, June 20, 2011. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 1. Last post I covered why product development organizations need to kill projects and move to agile programs Heres how: 1) Embrace, but control projects. Areas of commonality around projects are the basis for forming programs and teams.

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How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 2 - Social.

Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Thursday, September 15, 2011. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 2. In How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 1 , I listed the first steps in moving from projects to programs. In your agile program, there are a number of areas to focus on. Getting to Agile Programs.

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Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 9, 2011

Thursday, June 09, 2011. Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs. The second issue to tackle is shifting from projects to programs. Lets contrast that with Programs. Programs imply a strategy and a number of efforts that align with the strategy. and business transformation. Isaac Sacolick. Email This BlogThis!

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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Investigate FedRAMP and its role in standardizing cloud security and what the program means to federal agencies. Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense (2011-2013), Director, CIA (2009-2011) & Co-founder, Panetta Institute for Public Policy. Jim Byrom , Program Manager, Disaster Recovery, IRS. Wolf Tombe , CTO, U.S.

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Tech Moves: Karat, Common Room, Aduro hire execs; longtime Microsoft cloud leader departs

GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

He spent the past 11 years as a principal program manager lead for Microsoft Azure. “Each of these waves of technology and value delivered to the world were deeply meaningful and I’m incredibly fortunate to have witnessed these evolutions firsthand.”

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Washington state’s space industry doubles its economic impact in just four years

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Brian Rider, chief technology officer at LeoStella, said the backers of his company looked at a variety of locations around the country before deciding to put their satellite venture in Tukwila — and he pointed to one factor that tipped the decision in Washington state’s favor. billion annually.

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Enhance Your Security Posture: Doing Four Things Can Reduce Unauthorized Penetrations by 85%

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In October 2011, the SANS Institute announced that the U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for 2011 went to the Australian Defence Signals Directorate (that’s right, the U.S. Washington DC, October 24, 2011. The SANS Institute announced today that the Australian Defence Signals Directorate has won the 2011 U.S.

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The CTO made me do it - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The CTO made me do it. Your door flings open and the CTO walks into your office with the biggest smile on his face. Sometimes it’s the CTO other times it’s the CEO but some form of CXO or another is always buying new technology and trying to make it work. ©2011-2012 A Screws Loose. Standard Disclaimer.

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DOE’s secret weapon: Supercomputers, Developers Scramble to Build NSA-Proof Email and more

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

. “I think that’s a certainty,” said Jim Lewis, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the director of the Technology and Public Policy Program.’ Via The Hill, more here. Via The Hill, more here. Via Net Security, more here. ” Via FedScoop, more here.

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Helion co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Pihl (left) with founder and CEO David Kirtley at their facility in Redmond, Wash. Founded : 2011. Co-founder and CEO : Nick Fajt , former principal program manager working on Microsoft’s HoloLens. Valuation : $3.96 billion (as of Sept. Founded : 2015.

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Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart

GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

His technology career spanned four decades, from early Microsoft programming languages to modern Internet of Things devices. Manny Vellon was CTO of Seattle-based technology experience design firm Level 11. . Miami was also where he was introduced to computer programming.

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Cloud Computing: What do Government Executives Need to be Thinking about to Make a Successful Journey to the Cloud?

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AUGUST 17, 2015

In 2011 the US Federal Government issued a Cloud First policy mandating that agencies take full advantage of cloud computing benefits to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. Is my program, platform, or capability ready or able to move to the cloud?

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Tech Moves: Expedia and F5 Networks add board members; Madrona principal departs; and more

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

. — Former Rover and Cheezburger CTO Scott Porad is now vice president of engineering at Seattle virtual healthcare startup 98point6. based drugstore.com, which was acquired by Walgreens in 2011 for $429 million. Lockstep offers a technology platform for accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) teams. Snohomish, Wash.

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Discount Code for Strata and Hadoop World NYC is 28-30 Oct 2013

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

CEO / CIO / COO / CTO. Chief Architect, Chief Data Architect. Chief Data Officer / Chief Data Scientist. Program Chairs. is program chair for Strata and the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. Edd was the editor of XML.com for many years, and program chair for the XML Europe and XTech conferences.

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DARPA Official: Human-Robot Teams Key to Disaster Response

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Over a period of less than three years,” program manager Dr. Gill Pratt wrote in the January-February edition of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, “DARPA expects the field of robotics to undergo a historic transformation that could drive innovation in robots for defense, health care, agriculture and industry.”.

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My Advice to Engineering Undergraduate Students - Social, Agile.

Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Some were part of McGraw-Hills summer intern program and some were family friends, but I decided to write some of my core tidbits of advice in a blog post. In my Bachelor program, I think I took only a handful of non-core engineering classes (including math, science, and other requirements). Labels: about me , cio , startup cto.

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Data Visualization Examples - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 29, 2013

Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ► 2011. (14). Twitter Profile. Business Exchange Profile. My Facebook Profile. Family Travelers. Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. My Publications & Awards. about me. (33). agile planning. (17). big data. (20).

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Cloud Security Alliance Federal Summit 5 May in DC

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MAY 1, 2015

In the federal space, technology decision-makers have engaged as members since the organization was founded in 2008. The CSA gained significant visibility in 2011 when the White House selected the CSA summit as the venue for announcing the federal government's cloud computing strategy. Status of CSA and FedRAMP Collaboration Efforts".

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We're an Agile Family! - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

A colleague sent me this TED talk, Agile Programming for your Family. I know of companies that have used agile methodologies outside of technology including marketing, construction, and operations. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ► 2011. (14).

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Tweets from Gartner Symposium 2012 - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ► 2011. (14). Twitter Profile. Business Exchange Profile. My Facebook Profile. Family Travelers. Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. My Publications & Awards. about me. (33). agile planning. (17). big data. (20).

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Agile Social Big Data Business Intelligence

Being a CIO: One Year Later - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Thursday, September 22, 2011. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ▼ 2011. (14). How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Pa. and business transformation. Being a CIO: One Year Later. Twitter Profile. Business Exchange Profile.

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Dark Data - A Business Definition - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 10, 2013

Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ► 2011. (14). Twitter Profile. Business Exchange Profile. My Facebook Profile. Family Travelers. Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. My Publications & Awards. about me. (33). agile planning. (17). big data. (20).

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Just Pinched Myself ! Part of a "GovCloud Dream Team" !!

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2013

His experience with Raytheon includes being the Director for Integrated Communication Systems (ICS) and the VP of International Programs. In 2011, he was named one of the Top 50 Government CIOs by Information Week. Air Force Heritage Program. He retired as a United States Army Reserve lieutenant colonel in July 2008.

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Agile Estimation and Architecture Leads to Collaboration and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 25, 2013

Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ► 2011. (14). Twitter Profile. Business Exchange Profile. My Facebook Profile. Family Travelers. Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. My Publications & Awards. about me. (33). agile planning. (17). big data. (20).

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Agile Architecture Software Development Big Data

Top Ten Attributes of Agile Platforms

Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Wednesday, November 30, 2011. In my last post, I stated that technology teams could achieve a 2X speed to market by leveraging agile platforms. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ▼ 2011. (14). and business transformation. Twitter Profile.

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Big Data, Agile, CIO - 2012 in Review

Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ► 2011. (14). Twitter Profile. Business Exchange Profile. My Facebook Profile. Family Travelers. Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. My Publications & Awards. about me. (33). agile planning. (17). big data. (20).

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Agile Process Improvement Using. Agile! - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 8, 2011

Tuesday, March 08, 2011. The agile practices helped to intensivy contact with the sponsors of the process improvement program, thus delivering business value. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ▼ 2011. (14). and business transformation.

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The Internet of Things Will Deliver Big Data's Promise

Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 17, 2013

Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ► 2011. (14). Twitter Profile. Business Exchange Profile. My Facebook Profile. Family Travelers. Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. My Publications & Awards. about me. (33). agile planning. (17). big data. (20).

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5 Ways to Improve Agile Team Velocity

Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 24, 2013

Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ► 2011. (14). Twitter Profile. Business Exchange Profile. My Facebook Profile. Family Travelers. Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. My Publications & Awards. about me. (33). agile planning. (17). big data. (20).

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Agile Software Development Big Data Social

Three Agile Insights Working With Offshore Teams

Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ► 2011. (14). Twitter Profile. Business Exchange Profile. My Facebook Profile. Family Travelers. Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. My Publications & Awards. about me. (33). agile planning. (17). big data. (20).

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Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009.

Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 5, 2009

Looking back to 2008, I shifted this blog from covering startups and issues for CTOs (re: Startup CTO ) and covered a lot about the agile software development life cycle. I also covered some practical matters on when to use (and not use) pair programming , a bit on the Scrum Master role , and on story writing vs requirements docs.

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Simple Agile Product Development - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Monday, October 10, 2011. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ▼ 2011. (14). and business transformation. Simple Agile Product Development. I firmly believe the best products are simple. What does simple mean? Twitter Profile. My Facebook Profile.

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What Is Big Data? The Real Challenges Beyond Volume, Velocity.

Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ► 2011. (14). Twitter Profile. Business Exchange Profile. My Facebook Profile. Family Travelers. Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. My Publications & Awards. about me. (33). agile planning. (17). big data. (20).

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Amazon Cloud - Becoming a Storm? - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 27, 2009

As a Startup CTO , it was pretty easy to get hosting solved. Labels: amazon , cloud computing , SaaS , startup cto. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ► 2011. (14). Want Windows, ASP.Net, MS SQL - check, they have it. Isaac Sacolick.

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Top 10 Reasons to Visit Your Offshore Teams

Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Wednesday, February 09, 2011. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ▼ 2011. (14). and business transformation. Top 10 Reasons to Visit Your Offshore Teams. Me at the Taj Mahal on a very cloudy day. Twitter Profile. Business Exchange Profile.

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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Ask some CTO’s about how their product scales and they’ll whip out a logical diagram showing you redundant networks, redundant firewalls, load balancers, clustered application servers, redundant databases, and SAN storage. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). ► 2011. (14).

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Transforming to a Big Data Organization

Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 16, 2013

Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. ► 2011. (14). Twitter Profile. Business Exchange Profile. My Facebook Profile. Family Travelers. Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. My Publications & Awards. about me. (33). agile planning. (17). big data. (20).

Big Data

Big Data Data Agile Social

Top Five Itineraries for the CIO's Offshore Visit

Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The presentation covered our accomplishments in 2011, our goals for 2012 and our team structure. I then had a few open dialogues around two keep aspects of our technology culture and process - agile development and our software development standards. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. startup cto. (19).

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Tech Moves: Google engineering director Ankur Sinha joins Remitly as CTO

Tech Moves: Xamarin co-founder leaves Microsoft; OfferUp adds execs; and more

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotechnologies COO departing; Sana adds leaders; and more

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CIO Blogs for July 2011

The most successful accelerator cohort ever: How this Techstars Seattle class produced 3 unicorns

Next-gen battery startup Sila breaks ground on Washington facility with $100M in DOE support

How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 1 - Social.

How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 2 - Social.

Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs - Social, Agile, and.

Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

Tech Moves: Karat, Common Room, Aduro hire execs; longtime Microsoft cloud leader departs

Washington state’s space industry doubles its economic impact in just four years

Enhance Your Security Posture: Doing Four Things Can Reduce Unauthorized Penetrations by 85%

The CTO made me do it - A Screw's Loose

DOE’s secret weapon: Supercomputers, Developers Scramble to Build NSA-Proof Email and more

Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart

Cloud Computing: What do Government Executives Need to be Thinking about to Make a Successful Journey to the Cloud?

Tech Moves: Expedia and F5 Networks add board members; Madrona principal departs; and more

Discount Code for Strata and Hadoop World NYC is 28-30 Oct 2013

DARPA Official: Human-Robot Teams Key to Disaster Response

My Advice to Engineering Undergraduate Students - Social, Agile.

Data Visualization Examples - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Cloud Security Alliance Federal Summit 5 May in DC

We're an Agile Family! - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Tweets from Gartner Symposium 2012 - Social, Agile, and.

Being a CIO: One Year Later - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Dark Data - A Business Definition - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Just Pinched Myself ! Part of a "GovCloud Dream Team" !!

Agile Estimation and Architecture Leads to Collaboration and.

Top Ten Attributes of Agile Platforms

Big Data, Agile, CIO - 2012 in Review

Agile Process Improvement Using. Agile! - Social, Agile, and.

The Internet of Things Will Deliver Big Data's Promise

5 Ways to Improve Agile Team Velocity

Three Agile Insights Working With Offshore Teams

Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009.

Simple Agile Product Development - Social, Agile, and Transformation

What Is Big Data? The Real Challenges Beyond Volume, Velocity.

Amazon Cloud - Becoming a Storm? - Social, Agile, and.

Top 10 Reasons to Visit Your Offshore Teams

How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

Transforming to a Big Data Organization

Top Five Itineraries for the CIO's Offshore Visit

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