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An Interview

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Every large agile framework that I know of is an excuse to avoid the difficult and challenging work of sorting out the organization’s system architecture so that small agile teams can work independently. For example, the dependencies generated by the big back end of a banking system is a huge source of friction for product teams.

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Official Intelligence

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A Killer App for IoT When devices are scattered throughout a physical space, controlling them by voice is a killer app for the Internet of Things [1] – but only if a simple control standard is embedded in every device. Amazon’s Echo has a different focus: always-on listening and hands-free control of an exploding array of internet devices.

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Grown-Up Lean

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The Internet has been open to public for six years. The democratization of programming arrived with the public Internet in 1991, and within a decade it became clear that the old model for developing software was obsolete. Loosely coupled systems can be very robust. Consider the internet. Linux is six years old.