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Technology Transfer: A Contact Sport
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Technology Transfer: A Contact Sport

The success or failure of technology transfer depends on many factors. No single mechanism is guaranteed to succeed, though there are many mechanisms that are likely...

Research in the Wild: Making Research Work in Industry
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Research in the Wild: Making Research Work in Industry

What is the best way to organize researchers into a company?  An independent research lab?  Mixing researchers in with product teams? Or not hiring researchers...

Why Is Great Design So Hard?
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Why Is Great Design So Hard?

Why is good design so hard to accomplish for organizations? People are coming to the realization that design really matters, but it's not that they don't want to...

Are You Invisible?
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Are You Invisible?

If you sit in your office and just focus on doing your work, you’re invisible, Patty Azzarello says. Here’s her career advice on how to be recognized at your work...

Successful Software Platforms Are the Byproducts of Successful Businesses
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Successful Software Platforms Are the Byproducts of Successful Businesses

Startups need their current business to be successful and self-sustaining before they place serious effort in building a general software platform.

Why Do Software Developers Tolerate 'Crunch Time'?
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Why Do Software Developers Tolerate 'Crunch Time'?

Given the well known increased risk of burnout for an extended "Crunch Time," why do developers put up with it? 

Frequent Releases Change Software Engineering
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Frequent Releases Change Software Engineering

If you started deploying software much more frequently, how would it change your software development?

Bridging Cultures For Collaboration
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Bridging Cultures For Collaboration

All too often, our technical curricula fail to focus on the human aspect of cross-domain collaboration. Technical skills are necessary, but not sufficient. One...

The Siren Song of Startups
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The Siren Song of Startups

If you go to a startup, make sure you go for the right reasons.

A Simple View of the Budget Process
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A Simple View of the Budget Process

An abstract view of how NSF gets its money, in the context of the federal budget process.
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