A major part of #productmanager ’s daily life involves a lot of communication, decision making and feature #prioritization among many. With multiple product lines and time pressure, the feature prioritization decisions could become very subjective. Here are the 5 questions every #productmanager should ask before making a decision. - Is there a lost revenue if this feature is NOT made ? [...]

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The move to cloud-based applications has undeniably delivered tremendous benefits. However, the associated distribution creates various challenges from the quality perspective: End-to-end tests need to pass through multiple dependent systems, which are commonly unavailable, evolving, or difficult-to-access for testing.Accessing such systems often involves transaction and bandwidth fees.Teams need to test and tune the system under test against a realistic and broad range of performance and behavior conditions – yet such conditions are often difficult to achieve in a test environment.

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Ok, what’s with the new Chuck E Cheese coupons?  I know prices go up, but the coupons are really becoming worthless.  Buy 100 tokens get a free cheese pizza?  Who...

"Save the Children welcomes the G8 "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition", but leaders must not allow the Eurozone crisis to derail their leadership needed to fulfill its promise. G8 leaders can't let the economic crisis in Europe cast a dark shadow over the bright promise they rolled out with African leaders this weekend."

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The explosion of big data and the need for faster data are spurring a search for data scientists as well as data architects.It’s no secret that rocket .. err … data scientists are in short supply. The explosion of data and the corresponding explosion of tools, and the knock-on impacts of Moore’s and Metcalfe’s laws, is that there is more data, more connections, and more technology to process it than ever. At last year’s Hadoop World, there was a feeding frenzy for data scientists, which only barely dwarfed demand for the more technically oriented data architects.

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With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just over three weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from Nov 7 through Nov 10 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT?

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The cloud has many benefits, but when it comes to application development, how does the cloud help enterprises and development teams create custom software and applications that end users actually care about? Using real world examples from Adobe, Herff Jones and Navy Federal Credit Union, this session will highlight the advantages cloud computing provides for quickly developing custom software and applications with compelling user experiences.In their general session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Anthony Franco, president of EffectiveUI, and Ken Guiberson, CTO of EffectiveUI, will explore:Using the flexible nature of cloud computing to rapidly design and deploy integrated enterprise applicationsLeveraging the cloud for a highly visible and transparent development processUsing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to create a hybrid cloud

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The Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's leading management consulting firms, announced today that Richard I. Lesser has been elected its next President and Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2013. Lesser, 49, is currently BCG's Chairman of North and South America, based in New York.

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A ten-day effort by Air Canada pilots to negotiate a new agreement with the airline has failed, sending the dispute to federally-legislated arbitration.

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