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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. When new CTO Prakash Khot arrived from Salesforce, he shifted the company towards continuous delivery, testing changes more frequently and on smaller audiences. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images.

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Big Data's Management Revolution

Harvard Business Review

In 2001 PASSUR began offering its own arrival estimates as a service called RightETA. According to the company's CTO, Phil Shelley, the time needed to generate a comprehensive set of promotions dropped from eight weeks to one, and is still dropping. This change allowed the company to be much faster and more precise with its promotions.

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Why Agile Goes Awry — and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.”