Most software professionals have never seen a successful software development project, continuous delivery evangelist Dave Farley said, and have “built careers on doing the wrong thing”.

Many startup teams are, by definition, short-term gigs. Spin up a startup, work hard, accomplish amazing things, and flip. Some startups do end up becoming corporations, but that’s a rare case. Hollywood (film production in general) works the same way, so what can we learn from Hollywood?

By now, we are all aware that social media has had a tremendous impact on our culture, in business, on the world-at-large. Social media websites are some of the most popular haunts on the Internet…

Former Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit explains why new branches of data science must steer from the impulse to measure correlation and instead seek to explore causality. New discoveries in causality built upon big data can then be used to help people break bad habits and steer clear of harmful behaviors.

Given the time and expense associated with implementing a large-scale solution, it’s worth considering whether building small programs around specific problems and then scaling up is the right approach for your organization.