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Pitfalls of Agile Transformations

LeanEssays

In the First Round Review article I'm Sorry, But Agile Won't Fix Your Products , Adam Pisoni, co-founder and former CTO of Yammer, contends that “While SCRUM did manage to rein in impulsive managers, it ended up being used more to exert tighter control over engineers’ work.” Agile without a strong technology base is usually a mistake.

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#define CTO OpenAI

Greg Brockman

Geoff Hinton once told me that AlexNet , which triggered the deep learning revolution in computer vision, was due to Alex Krizhevsky ’s GPU coding skills and Ilya’s conviction that a deep neural network was bound to win on ImageNet. Technical leadership should call the shots while still doing hands-on technical work.