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Dan Gwak of Point72 Ventures on why defense tech is becoming the next big thing for investors

TechCrunch

In 2017, when the billionaire hedge fund manager “Stevie” Cohen decided to build out a venture practice — Point72 Ventures — he poached Gwak, and Gwak has remained active since, including leading a 50-person team that has invested more than $1 billion into roughly 130 companies on Cohen’s behalf. Air Force and U.S Lockheed Martin?

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Product Managers are responsible for the successful development, testing, release, and adoption of a product, and for leading the team that implements those milestones. It sounds simplistic to state that AI product managers should develop and ship products that improve metrics the business cares about. Agreeing on metrics.

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Editor's Soapbox: On Systemic Debt

The Daily WTF

"Total Inventory Process" Off the bat, you know that this is a case of an overambitious in-house team trying to make a "do everything" application that's gonna solve every problem. When I was hired, I was the second developer hired to work full time on supporting TIP. They ruled the system.

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AoAD2 Practice: Management

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. We help our teams excel. Agile managers manage the work system rather than individual work.

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How to Conduct User Acceptance Testing: Process Stages, Deliverables, and End-User Testing Place in Quality Assurance

Altexsoft

Product design starts with the assumptions of how a product should behave and look like, and while they are usually based on market research and user interviews, these are still just assumptions. When conducting various quality assurance activities , development teams are able to look at the product from the user’s standpoint.

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Patient Portal Software: How to Build a Platform that Engages

Altexsoft

And some things like usability, limited functionality, or simply a bad fit for your customer base might prove a product completely ineffective. Here, a provider teams up with a healthcare technology partner on the design and development of a portal. Poor usability. Consider mobile-first development.

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Don’t Separate Design from Implementation

LeanEssays

Of course there was a rough budget based on history, but when a control system was going to be used for some decades, one was never penny wise and pound foolish. He had decided to have an outside firm develop and install a process monitoring system for a plant. Even a list of features and functions is design.