If you want to be a great leader you must become the kind of person, like Mobley and Faulkner, who enjoys thinking conceptually and applying these concepts to a wide range of apparently unrelated circumstances...

Product Management practices remains a skill difficult to pin down in its scope and responsibility. This article discusses how Product Management can exist within an Agile-oriented organization. It explains that it is an organizational level activity with responsibilities, decision-making and influences far beyond the scope of the software itself. Without the Product Manager, the Product Owner cannot do his job, as the business context for the software solution is lost.
Paul Raymond, Inflectra Corporation, http://www.inflectra.com/

The lines between cloud providers and cloud consumers keep getting fuzzier every day. Many enterprises are engaged in both offering services through their own clouds, as well as subscribing to cloud services from public providers. To meet the consumption side of the equation, there is now a mega-industry of public cloud service providers that are aggressively competing for this online market. Vendors within this mega-industry are overwhelming customers with a bewildering assortment of pricing plans and service level agreements.

Comcast tells Ars why it's not to blame in Netflix fight—it was only business.