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Navy Acquisition Can Easily Be Fixed

Marv's Smart Future

Given these real-world challenges, it is imperative that Navy rapidly transform the acquisition system to support Fleet Design. To turn this around “speed to capability” should be the primary program metric, with cost, performance, and schedule as secondary metrics.

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Sequencing Architecture Modernization: Risk Averse vs Risk Tolerant

Strategic Tech

Even a decade or more is nothing out of the ordinary for large organizations who have accumulated legacy and heritage systems over long periods of time. As a result, there can be pressure to begin modernizing a part of the system that will have a clear business impact. Modernizing an architecture usually take years.

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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.

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Unleashing the power of generative AI: Verisk’s journey to an Instant Insight Engine for enhanced customer support

AWS Machine Learning - AI

The Opportunity Verisk FAST’s initial foray into using AI was due to the immense breadth and complexity of the platform. Having that transparency helped Verisk identify areas of the system where their documents were lacking and needed some restructuring. However, they understood that this was not a one-and-done effort.