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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

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Transitioning from mechanical challenges, the global freight organization has embraced more intricate trials, those of remote management, digitization, and preserving technical expertise and quality in the face of emerging obstacles. Kopal, tell us about your journey. I started out as an application developer.

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Google Sustainability Efforts in the Cloud Now Claim to be “Carbon Intelligent”

ParkMyCloud

Given that cloud computing has been a major draw of global energy in recent years, the amount of computing done in data centers more than quintupled between 2010 and 2018. But, the amount of energy consumed by the world’s data centers grew only six percent during that period, thanks to improvements in energy efficiency.

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AoAD2 Practice: Stakeholder Trust

James Shore

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Product Managers, Whole Team. When management looked in on the struggling team, they saw formal diagrams papering the walls and programmers working long hours. Like it or not, your team doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Details here. Stakeholder Trust.

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AoAD2 Practice: Trust

James Shore

Your feedback is appreciated! To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Product Managers, Whole Team. No matter how effective you are, you’re in trouble without the goodwill of your stakeholders. It is unfair.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

mRNA vaccines have given us a promising path to COVID immunity, developed in record time. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” Alan Kay once said. 2020 proved him both right and wrong. Climate change too has been on the radar, not just for decades but for over a century, since Arrhenius’s 1896 paper on the greenhouse effect.

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AoAD2 Practice: Slack

James Shore

Your feedback is appreciated! To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Imagine that the power cable for your workstation is just barely long enough to reach the wall receptacle. Developers. How Much Slack?

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Editor's Soapbox: On Systemic Debt

The Daily WTF

In 2007, I was hired to support an application which was "on its way out," as "eventually" we'd be replacing it with a new ERP. The application needed to be able to say, "If the customer makes 300 widgets, that's $10 worth of toilet paper." September 2019 was when it finally got retired.

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