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Commercial companies to collaborate for DARPA’s new lunar economy study

TechCrunch

Department of Defense’s R&D arm, which has just selected 14 companies to participate in a new study to develop technological frameworks for a lunar future. That’s DARPA’s hunch, anyway. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the U.S. The next decade […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Why Engineers Should Study Philosophy

Harvard Business Review

The ability to develop crisp mental models around the problems you want to solve and understanding the why before you start working on the how is an increasingly critical skill, especially in the age of AI. Coding is one of the things AI does best and its capabilities are quickly improving.

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5 Ways to Live and Study Web Development in Great Britain Next Summer

The Crazy Programmer

In a time of mass unemployment due to Covid-19, web development is the career of the future. Studying a web development course which teaches you an in-demand programming language is a great way to start a secure, pandemic-proof career in web development. Fire Tech Camp Teen Web Development Course.

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Case Study: How to Increase Self-Organization in a Complex Environment

Agile42

In this case study, we show how the right handling of constraints and practices allowed our client’s transformation team to handle complex and complicated questions to maneuver their organizations through this challenge. The project involved over 100 developers across Europe.

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Success Story: Swiss Insurtech Company Hires a Remote CTO from Ukraine

Swiss Insurtech startup decided to go the 2nd way and found a trusted partner to build a dedicated development team in Ukraine. As the case study describes, a Senior Software Engineer with Scrum Master duties was promoted to the role of CTO of a Swiss company while residing most of the time in Ukraine.

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5 Best Universities to Study Computer Science

The Crazy Programmer

5 Best Universities to Study Computer Science. The faculty offers four-year certification in scientific studies’, master of science, and a specialist of theory. There is likewise a solid accentuation on interdisciplinary exploration across science, hereditary qualities, etymology, development, and medication, among others.

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Leap raises $17 million to help Indian students study abroad

TechCrunch

An Indian student studying in the U.S., Leap has also developed a social network of sorts where over half a million students are talking to one another and use the platform’s other services to get admission in a college abroad. Kumar said Leap today is helping students with guidance on admission, visas, and test preparation.

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From an Agency Serving Clients to Their Own Fintech Product

Simply hiring a skilled and qualified professional in development was not enough - they needed a person who had experience in programming within the banking domain. The project they needed to complete was aimed at operating within the financial environment, thus it was tremendous, scrupulous, and time-consuming.

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A PM’s Guide to Forging an Outcome-Driven Product Team

Speaker: Kim Antelo, Transformation Coach

In this webinar, Transformational Coach Kim Antelo will walk through a case study of a healthcare company with lofty OKRs, but with little tie-back to the product performance. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! She will also discuss: The overlap between HEART and Pirate AAARRR metrics.

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How to Find Software Engineers Fast: A Case Study

Download the case study to learn how to tackle the problems of hiring the right developers fast: What alternatives to local hiring your business may have. How to ensure diversity in your development team. Download the case study to read about a Canadian SaaS company, which fought all these challenges successfully.

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How to Develop a Recession-Proof Product-Led Strategy

Speaker: Wes Bush, Author of "Product-Led Growth"

Wes will also discuss and teach you: Case studies of successful and failed PLG strategies. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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Product Design & Customer Experience: An Innovative View on Inclusive Product Development

Speaker: Dan Jenkins - Human Factors & Research Lead – DCA Design International

The presentation will be packed full of real-world examples of great inclusive design (covering household products and digital services), alongside a few more detailed case studies explaining how inclusive design can be embedded successfully in the design process. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Prioritizing Customer Experience Using SLIs & SLOs: A Case Study from The Telegraph

The premise of SLIs/SLOs is that all teams—product, architecture, development, and platform— need to look at services from the customer’s perspective. Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives are now the principal tools for focusing on what really matters.

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The Advantages of Free and Open-Source Software Vs. Open-Core Software

Instaclustr commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a custom study to assess application development decision-makers’ understanding of the benefits of using open-core software vs. free and open source software (FOSS). Check out the findings!

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The Retailer’s Playbook for Customer Acquisition

We developed this guide to help retailers build a data-centric acquisition program that lowers their acquisition costs, eliminates wasteful spending, attracts high-value customers and provides a competitive advantage in a tight market. Now more than ever – one need remains consistent: a successful customer acquisition program. Download now!