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Leadership Anti-Pattern: Victim Mentality

Leaders don't have victim mentalities - own your failures

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

1-10-100 rule in quality software development

What is the 1-10-100 Rule in Software Development Quality Control? The 1-10-100 rule simply refers to the cost to fix defects (aka bugs) by phase/step in a software development…

Pete Ferguson

· 2 min read

The Technology Adoption Life Cycle and Sticky Notes [The Formula to Quickly Reach The Right Market]

In one of the worst quotes in American history (followed closely by every popular quote from a Marvel character), Ralph Waldo Emerson said:Build a better mousetrap, and the world…

Eric Arrington

· 9 min read

CEO Guide to Quality Engineering

What is Quality Engineering? Quality Engineering encompasses all the product quality improving practices that you incorporate into your end-to-end (E2E) product delivery process.…

Heather Abbott

· 6 min read

STEM Education - A Growing National Security Crisis

STEM graduation in the United States is too low to continue to be self sufficient in our innovation endeavors.

Marty Abbott

· 8 min read

Team Dynamics - Affective and Cognitive Conflict

Maximize cognitive conflict and minimize affective conflict in teams

Marty Abbott

· 7 min read

CEO Guide To Breaking Up The Monolith

WHAT IS A MONOLITH AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND ITS IMPACT TO THE BUSINESS?You may have noticed your engineering teams are too slow or your CTO has been complaining about…

Dave Berardi

· 6 min read

Why You Need an Architecture Team

You need an architecture team for long term viability of your platform and solution.

Marty Abbott

· 9 min read

CEO Guide to Innovation

What is Innovation?To better understand innovation, we identify 2 variations of innovations:Disruptive Innovation or Big (I) Innovation - when new products or services create new…

Phillip Seawright

· 8 min read

Technical Product Owners Are a Symptom of An Agile Failure

Technical Product Owners are a sign of Agile failure. Don't fall into the trap of creating such a role in your organization.

Marty Abbott

· 7 min read

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 that was credited to…

Heather Abbott

· 10 min read

What is Product Operations and How to Implement Product Operations

What is Product Operations and How to Implement Product Operations Successfully

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

CEO Guide to Managing a CTO

Guidance on how to have discussions with and manage your CTO

Marty Abbott

· 12 min read

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) that the company plans…

Heather Abbott

· 7 min read
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