Tag: software
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Relative to your interests, Friday afternoon
What’s a software CEO to do in the current climate? Here’s the urgent 2026 playbook – Playbook for software companies that are (forced to) switch from growth mode to normal company mode. Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation \ Anthropic – “Today, our run-rate revenue is $14 billion,…
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Related to your interests, Thursday
Harry Clarke’s Elixirs of Life 9 Terms That Helped Navigate a Confusing Year in Art – “It’s art that blends street art, Pop art, sneakerhead culture, merch-drop dynamics, and memes into a mix that is the opposite of reverential.” Nobody knows how large software products work – “It’s easier to write software than to explain…
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A race against software calcification
Eventually, software is very hard to change. There are numerous reasons for this, and they often don’t even involve the software. The systems that run the software are old, regulators don’t let you change things, security controls, people have just forgotten how to program COBOL. There is so much code that it’s hard to know…
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ING infects Capital One with Agile
When Capital One started to roll out agile development in 2011, Wolfs said it amounted to just one percent of software that was delivered. Today, 85 percent of software is delivered by the agile method. With agile, Capital One now also releases approximately 400 product releases a month, has cut delivery times to three to…
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40,000 plus Macs in use at Google
And check out the comments for this gem: Do American universities not teach their computer programmers to use sensible names for objects? “Cauliflower Vest is an end-to-end Mac OS X FileVault 2 recovery key escrow solution.” Yup, first thing that comes to mind. It would be nice if we could assemble a tool set without…
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Finished In Search of Stupidity
I finished reading In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters today during lunch. All in all, it was an excellent book, and I’d recommend it to anyone in the software bid’ness. It’s got: (1.) good history of the software world, and, (2.) a good catalog of stupid mistakes software firms have…
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Links: Fast Zombies, Software Cash, Bacon
The Fast Zombie Tipping Point – will Dawn of the Dead transform Zombies from ambling slow-pokes to deadly speed-demons? Software Spending Estimates Adjusted Downwards – “At the end of last year, the top 25 software companies reported an 8 percent increase in sales. But, once currency fluctuations were taken into account, the revenue growth at…
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Can I Use the Word "Agile" Enough?
Zane’s post on the negative effects of personal motivations on software development reminded me of Cockburn’s discusion in Agile Development on the same topic. I went a-Googling for a write up, or summary of what was in the book. The closest thing I found was this, but the rest seemed like slim pickins. However, as…
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