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Last month I discussed the US National Security Agency's (NSA) electronic surveillance and data gathering practices (aka "Prism"), which were leaked by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor (with Booz Allen Hamilton) and previous CIA employee, to the Guardian and Washington Post news organizations (see
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Cyber security is an oxymoron in the age of the Internet. Despite massive amounts of evidence to the contrary, CIOs, CSOs, corporate officers, governmental officials, and agencies charged with protecting critical assets continue to talk and behave as though cyber security is not real.
I remember learning how to use a slide rule both from my father and in high school. My father was enamored of this computational device but at the time, handheld calculators were all the rage. High school teachers were lamenting the fact that students would miss the opportunity to learn how to use a slide rule. As students, we didn't care about this at all.
The impact of the mobile software product grows every day, reaching a point in which mobile devices become one of the most important platforms for the distribution and utilization of user-oriented software. Mobile application stores host thousands of apps, reporting millions of downloads per day.
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Enterprises and large projects increasingly express interest in using Agile methods due to its success in small teams. In this Executive Report, we discuss expanding Agile for the enterprise through techniques for scaling, extending, and embracing Agile methodologies. Through the "discovery curve" technique, we show that discovering needed knowledge constitutes the largest obstacle any project team faces. Agile shortens discovery times in small teams.
Small Agile teams have attained a reputation for delivering continuous customer value using the Agile Manifesto and its principles with Agile mentors and literature as a guide. The success of these teams has whetted the appetite of both large corporations and large project teams to adopt Agile in hopes of achieving these results in a larger context.
In early June, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a remarkable report entitled, "Greece: Ex Post Evaluation of Exceptional Access Under the 2010 Stand-By Arrangement," documenting the IMF's decision to participate in the economic rescue of Greece from its self-created ec
