It is hard to argue with the premise that leadership matters. Whether in plain view or behind the scenes, good leaders are at the heart of successful organizations, coalitions, and movements. Yet ...

Product development is key to business success. It determines every new product's final cost, what features it will have, and whether the company will make money selling it. And many companies track a ...

Software development and deployment cycles keep accelerating, thanks in large part to artificial intelligence (AI), which can generate code and make suggestions. Even with such hyper-productivity, IT ...

Measuring the productivity of product development is a complex and multi-faceted task, significantly different from manufacturing operations. Output from manufacturing is increasingly automated and ...

Human activity has caused precipitous increases in greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, resulting in a one degree warming of average global surface temperatures over the past century. As the planet ...

If you’re using software development productivity metrics to evaluate developer performance, then you’re doing it wrong. For best results, tie them to business outcomes. I cringe when development ...

It is easy to learn the average income of a resident of El Salvador or Albania. But there is no systematic source of information on the average income of a Salvadoran or Albanian. We estimate a new ...

This week, the government announced that economic growth in the first quarter this year was 5.7 percent (pna.gov.ph, 5/9/2024), and boasted that it outpaced the growth percentages of China (5.3) and ...