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This article is actually a fabulous account of Larry Page’s development as a CEO and leader at Google. I wasn’t expecting to read the whole thing, but I really

• coinerone 6y ago
  Maybe because its written like a Hollywood Movie Plot! "It was just five years since Page, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford, was struck in the middle of the night with a vision. In it, he somehow managed to download the entire Web and by examining the links between the pages he saw the world’s information in an entirely new way."
  • johnchristopher 6y ago
    To be read in Jeff Bridge's voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-J4duzP8Ng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-J4duzP8Ng (Tron legacy speech).
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• Zigurd 6y ago
  The article is from 2014 and describes events from 2001. That is before the Agile approach became popular for managing software development projects. It is the same year the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was written. Agile happened because using the standard set of pre-Agile tools was inflexible. Replanning happened way too often, and was way too much work. Or, worse, teams tried to stick to a clearly obsolete schedule. This is not to say that Agile, especially as it has morphed into something that is too often a jargon-laden dogma, it an unalloyed good. But it was a relatively primitive time for software project management. The article says very little about what responsibilities were organized onder project managers. Was it the wrong approach to project management? Was the job description inappropriate? The wrong tools?