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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. They should be senior and experienced enough to be respected by both internal and external team members, and sufficient clout to cut through the bureaucracy as needed. Create the role of “external talent manager.”

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method. .”