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The evolution of Information Technology towards hyper-convergence

The Startup Magazine

Businesses also demand flexibility, choice, agility, and cost-effectiveness from these enabling technologies to ensure that business capabilities can change with demand, market, trade mission, and more. The processing power and centralized design of this system made it very expensive and inflexible.

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[Interview] Bo Zou, Toronto-Based Digital User Experience Specialist And Thought Leader

YoungUpstarts

In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says. Oftentimes, they have a much closer connection to end users, thus finding it easier to connect the dots to design user experiences that matter. Feng Shui is much more than just a philosophy.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios. Image Credit: Natalie Harper. 6 – Investment Banker.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design. Have an account? Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Not being caught up in a corporate management structure gives me the freedom and agility to be at the top of our game. I’ve taken a major risk (both financially & mentally) and surrendered my 15 year career in architecture & design, but my heart and mind are in this project every waking moment.