Net Objectives

JANUARY 27, 2019

Being given a map with alternatives to get there provides not only options that … Continue reading "A metaphor for team agility – GPS systems". If you get lost or you can’t make a turn or you miss it you are lost.

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Martin Fowler

MAY 21, 2019

Technical Debt is a metaphor, coined by Ward Cunningham, that frames how to think about dealing with this cruft, thinking of it like a financial debt. What most appeals to me about the debt metaphor is how it frames how I think about how to deal with this cruft. The two day difference is the interest on the debt.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 1992, Ward Cunningham coined the metaphor “technical debt” to highlight how businesses weigh their short-term gains against the long-term viability of a software product. Business dynamics have evolved a lot since then, but the metaphor still works.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2018

The organization-as-machine metaphor has dominated management thinking for well over a century. We need a different metaphor for the organization: without one, we're doomed to end up with what we've already got. An more appropriate metaphor for the adaptive organization is to think about the organization as a brain.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

There are several ways to do this, including elevating the conversation to focus on the big picture and broader context, being forward-looking in your comments, anticipating the effects of potential decisions, connecting disparate concepts, simplifying complex issues, using metaphors and analogies, stimultating dialogue with questions, showing you (..)

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Software is not the tangible, kickable stuff our senses are tuned to, so we draw on metaphor to communicate and reason about it. Beyond its disordered arrangement, however, spaghetti has little to offer us as a metaphor. Another quality of a good metaphor is that it should not have too many obvious points of conflict.

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Storm Consulting

JULY 7, 2016

The Shu Ha Ri Agile metaphor. The chef metaphor version of Shu Ha Ri goes like this: Commis chef: follows the rules to learn the basics of hygiene, food preparation, cleaning and sharpening knives and working as part of a high performance team. It reminds us that development is a craft that demands many skills and senses. Bon appétit!

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CIO

MAY 16, 2023

While modern AI expands the toolset for achieving this, other tools—such as slogans, metaphors, and symbols—may be “low tech,” but they’re equally indispensable for innovation that moves the needle. But metaphors and slogans are actually the tell behind their winning ways. We can already see the power and promise of getting this right.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Pick some enabling metaphors and guardrails (such as the “eager intern” or “autonomous agent ”). Organizations that hold back on coming to an understanding of how to apply it, in their context, will earn the worst of both worlds: You still won’t understand it, and your proactive competitors will steal a march.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 29, 2020

That metaphorical place where people exchange ideas, build connections, and spontaneous innovation thrives. One of the most frequent concerns we hear from leaders and teams (where remote-work is the foreseeable norm) is the lack of a virtual watercooler. The informal exchange of […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What early-stage founder wouldn’t love to add metaphorical rocket fuel to their startup? We’re here to tell you that you can, in a form you may not have considered: online communities. Building an engaged, genuine online community that supports and sustains your business requires authenticity.

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InfoWorld

JANUARY 5, 2024

TensorFlow bundles together a slew of machine learning and deep learning models and algorithms ( aka neural networks ) and makes them useful by way of common programmatic metaphors.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The slave is sculpted emerging from the rock – an apt metaphor for modern executives emerging from the constraints of technical debt and keyboard interfaces. One executive cited Michelangelo’s sculpture Awakening Slave , which sits with David in the Accademia Gallery in Florence, Italy.

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If we were that metaphorical fly on the wall, following an all too common Slack conversation between a software engineer and DevOps engineers, it might go something like this: Software Engineer: This is gonna take forever. “I I need a new environment for my app.”

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The term ‘metaverse’ was coined by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science fiction novel ‘Snow Crash’, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional virtual space that uses the metaphor of the real world.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2016

As much as we may want to be investors, the portfolio metaphor is very limited in captive investing situations. The premise of the book I'm writing - that activist investing behaviors yields better performing tech investments - is also substantially a metaphor. But we do ourselves no favors by getting carried away with it.

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QAspire

AUGUST 19, 2016

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then a metaphor’s worth a thousand pictures.”. Finding right visual metaphors for the message has been a constant (and worthwhile) struggle when creating visual notes. A great read! Quote by Dr Peter Fuda ‏on Twitter. “If The Untold Costs of Social Networking – Luis Suarez.

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Martin Fowler

OCTOBER 6, 2021

My colleagues highlighted three techniques that are particularly well-suited as first steps into this collection: Ethical Explorer is a set of cards that use a metaphor of an explorer and risk zones to help a team discuss and understand potential dangers in their product plans.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The information narrative changed from being very positive to darker metaphors and analogies portraying information as “an unstoppable steamroller” or as “a river. We thrive on information, we depend on information, and yet we can also choke on it. We have available to us more information than one person could ever hope to process.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2024

Their belief in unconventional, experiential learning really resonated with me, and they also happened to have unique experience partnering with elite athletes as a metaphor for leadership. I thought back to a conversation I had with Morgan Yeargan– Client Success Partner at WDHB– and realized they could help me bring this vision to life.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Click on the individual links to learn more about each stage: Sustainability Stage Fintech Stage AI Stage SaaS Stage Hardware Stage Security Stage We’ve refreshed last year’s TechCrunch+ Stage with a new, metaphorical coat of paint.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

Let’s say I ask for: “a chatty but informative three-sentence explanation about the impact of generative AI on education, incorporating at least one metaphor.” Natasha: I don’t like the virtual sherpa metaphor. The AI will tell you what it needs — I wish humans were like this — and as a result, you’ll get a more tailored answer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

WhatsApp has long transcended its roots as a simple messaging app for friends, and is now a core communication tool for businesses seeking a direct channel to their customers’ pockets — both literally, and metaphorically.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

I’m using “runway” as a metaphor to describe how much cash a company has at its disposal to operate before it runs out of money. Just as airplanes need a runway to be of a minimum length to safely take off and land, startups must have sufficient cash to reach product-market fit.

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David Heinemeier Hansson

MAY 8, 2024

It's destruction of beloved musical instruments is the perfect metaphor for how utterly tone-deaf technologists are capable of being. It celebrates a lossy, creative compression for the most flimsy reason: An iPad shedding an irrelevant millimeter or two.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

To carry on the initial metaphor, the edtech ecosystem is now a deep, thriving lake. Not surprisingly, 2021 saw a boom in edtech investment across a spectra of investors. Indeed, edtech investment in 2020 and 2021 equaled the amount raised during the entire 2014-2019 period.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Come for Alex’s sci-fi connection, and stay for Natasha’s boat metaphor. The crypto regulatory world is heating up, with news from both India and the United States to chew on. Our read is that some regulation is good, but not every loss can be spun as a win.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2022

It’s helpful, at times, to think of any new technology using a train metaphor: Someone must invent the train (i.e., If that’s the conception, it’s little wonder few CIOs have spent serious time thinking of the possibilities for their enterprises.

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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 14, 2022

Introduced by Mike Cohn in his book Succeeding with Agile (2009), the pyramid is a metaphor for thinking about testing in software. In this article, we’ll explore what makes up the pyramid, how it is helpful, and what alternative “shapes” there are. What Is the Testing Pyramid?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

To use another coffee-related metaphor, UniSieve’s membranes are like the coffee filters that keep your drink free from grounds. UniSieve’s membrane cartridges UniSieve stands for “universal sieving” and its technology does not use thermal energy.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Put Your Own Mask on First – Yeah, I know this metaphor has become a cliché, but it’s a cliché because it’s true. The connective neurochemicals like serotonin and oxytocin that those moments release in people will help them remember why they like each other and will also help them regain their perspective that not everything sucks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

All this, and we still managed to sneak a Froyo metaphor into the running for best Official Equity comment of all time. Discussing a recent deal in the RPA space , the Equity team made predictions about which sectors in the startup world are the most likely to see consolidation in the coming quarters.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2023

Malcolm Frank, formerly chief strategy officer and president at Cognizant, now CEO at TalentGenius and author of What to Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data ,embraced the metaphor of the AI journey and explained that while we may not know the exact path our AI road trip might take; nor what (..)

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CIO

JUNE 27, 2023

I was surprised at the end of my examination of adjectives essential to CIO success to discover that an apt metaphor for CIO greatness is gardening, as described by Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf. I believe CIOs need to have a vision of what can be. A gardener needs to have a picture in mind that “can translate into the ground.”

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Change Starts Here

AUGUST 27, 2019

I decided to go with the metaphor of planting … In a recent conversation, a project manager said she struggled to get others in her organization, especially leaders and other project managers, to use change management tools to analyze the people side of their projects. “How do I plant the seeds of change management?”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

” This metaphor highlights the gradual building and rapid erosion of trust. Building and Maintaining Trust: A Continuous Journey The Fragile Nature of Trust Huiskens poignantly remarks, “Trust comes on foot and goes on horseback.” It underscores the importance of continual effort in fostering trust within teams.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

If so, the recent venture capital SPAC wave could become more of a rising tide in time, to torture a metaphor. Regardless, let’s quickly parse what Khosla and Lerer Hippeau are telling public investors about why they will be great SPACers before working our way backward to what the resulting pitch must be to startups themselves.

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