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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

When new CTO Prakash Khot arrived from Salesforce, he shifted the company towards continuous delivery, testing changes more frequently and on smaller audiences. When Facebook was founded in 2004, the company embraced the agile software delivery methodology to ensure that code was shipped as quickly as possible.

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Act Like a Leader Before You Are One

Harvard Business Review

Mike Subelsky, the co-founder and CTO at Staq, a tech start-up that makes software for digital advertising companies, spent most of his early career in roles with lots of responsibility, but not much authority. "I In 2004, he started a nonprofit in Baltimore. "It Case study #2: Take any leadership opportunity you can get.

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