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Book Review – Exponential – Azeem Azhar

Business of Software Conference

Book Review – Exponential – Azeem Azhar. It is a must read for anyone in tech. Technology is developing at an exponential rate. A history of the evolution of technology at the turn of the 20th Century – the great transition when the world changed beyond recognition. Humans evolved for a linear world.

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Book Review: Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics

Business of Software Conference

Book Review: ‘Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics’ Stephanie Hare, author of the recently published, ‘ Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics’ , will join us at Business of Software Conference Online next week, 9 March to talk about an important topic.

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How Well Do Your Policies Create Desired Outcomes and Trust?

Johanna Rothman

Every organization has policies of some sort. The smaller the organization, the fewer policies you might have. And, the larger the organization, the more policies you might think you need. I keep encountering policies that prevent people from delivering the outcomes the organization wants. Why have policies anyway?

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Managing high availability at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

We educate our engineers in these policies and processes throughout their Intercom careers, from employee onboarding to performance reviews. We build strong technical foundations. We build exclusively with a very small number of technologies as part of our stack, backed by a specific “ core technologies ” enablement team.

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2022 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve made it to the end of 2022 – 12 months in which everything changed for the tech industry. After booming for the best part of two decades, a number of factors coincided to transform the SaaS landscape and tech more broadly. As we know, we’re in the middle of a tech industry slowdown. Well that was quite the year.

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Become a Product Visionary with Alternative Futures Analysis

The Product Coalition

This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. As an intelligence officer, I used this technique to help policymakers consider how situations would unfold over time so they could shape US national security policy. Of course, the lesson here is: innovate or die. congratulations!

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Building an Efficient Release Management Process

Split

All too often, releases turn into stressful events, fraught with last-minute surprises that disrupt business processes. With the right processes in place, releases transform into a non-event that integrates seamlessly into normal operations. What is the Release Management Process Flow?