“The biggest challenge with Agile is culture — industry research has consistently reported this for years. Adaptation of a new way of working often doesn’t blend into “business as usual.” To succeed with Agile, we need to understand culture and how to navigate it.”
“Here’s another one in the “be careful what you wish for” category.”
“When Facebook users learned last March that the social media giant had given their sensitive information to political-data firm Cambridge Analytica, Mozilla (parent company of the security-focused browser Firefox) reacted fast: Within eight hours, the product team had built a browser extension calle”
“Social media-enabled cybercrimes are generating at least $3.25 billion in global revenue annually according to a new report.”
“Download software from the Microsoft Store and it will either auto-update or you’ll be notified when a new version is available. Problem is, most of our software isn’t downloaded from one source, so we often have no idea when big new updates are available.”
“For a lot of people, blockchain means Bitcoin, and Bitcoin is part of blockchain. In reality, however, Bitcoin is a single financial product developed on top of the blockchain technology.”
“If you’ve tried to spend actual paper money at your local lunch spot or salad shop lately, you may already know there’s a war on cash. Retail establishments—particularly in trendy neighborhoods in rapidly gentrifying cities like New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.”
“For the digital era, the cloud has proved to be a huge blessing. It enables storing large amounts of information — photos, videos, music, messages, etc. with a limited budget. With the dawn of the Internet, backing up data became much easier by storing it on the server rather than a hard drive.”
“Many companies invest in automation because the tax code encourages it, not because robots are more productive. Mr. Porter is an economics writer for The Times.”
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