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CEO Guide to Innovation
What is Innovation? To better understand innovation, we identify 2 variations of innovations: Disruptive Innovation or Big (I) Innovation - when…
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Why You Need an Architecture Team
One of the most concerning trends we’ve seen lately is the nearly complete elimination of architecture teams. We’ve unfortunately seen several clients go down…
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Technical Product Owners Are a Symptom of An Agile Failure
Over the last decade or so, I have seen a reemergence of the dreaded “business analyst”. These folks were the wait-staff of the waterfall lifecycle, taking…
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CEO Guide to Managing Tech Debt and Overall Platform Health
What is Technical Debt and how does it relate to overall application health? Technical debt or more commonly “tech debt” is an analogy to financial debt…
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What is Product Operations and How to Implement Product Operations
Visit 100 websites and 100 companies and you’ll find neither a consistent definition nor a consistent implementation for Product Operations. As Marty Cagan…
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CEO Guide to Managing a CTO
This post is intended for CEOs, COOs, Presidents or CPTOs (Chief Product and Technology Officers) of companies that build software products for revenue and who…
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CEO Guide to Hiring an Interim CTO
What is an Interim CTO? An interim CTO leads an engineering team when there is a senior engineering leadership gap (such as a departure of the prior CTO)…
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CEO Guide to Microservices
What are Microservices? Applications are commonly grouped under the umbrellas of monolithic or distributed. In simple terms a monolithic application…
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CEO Guide to the Public Cloud
What is the Public Cloud? As we’ve pointed out previously, “the cloud” has too many and often conflicting definitions. Similarly, “public cloud” is often…
Architecture
The Platform Mindset
This is the second part in a multi-part series on platform engineering, and platform product management. In our first post we made the case that for many…
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Why story points and velocity really matter
Recently, we have come across many teams that are not using story points and team velocity to track progress through the sprint. When asked why, we hear…
Architecture
Defining Platform
As with the word “Cloud”, the word “Platform” is an over-used and far too often underdefined word within our industry (comprised of companies that build…