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title: "Development and Deployment: The Human Factor | Boris Adryan | Thingmonk 2017"
date: 2017-11-02T14:27:59Z
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Why did the Roman empire crumble? What can we learn from the Romans failure to ensure IoT success? Comparing the Roman empire to IoT strategies is fascinating yet apt. If you’re involved in an IoT company be it big or small this video is definitely worth a watch. “Good Project Teams require generalists as social and technological glue” These generalists play a vital part in communication and their use could dictate the rise and fall of IoT empires.