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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 have as a direct…

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

CEO Guide to Microservices

What are Microservices?Applications are commonly grouped under the umbrellas of monolithic or distributed. In simple terms a monolithic application refers to a single code base…

Heather Abbott

· 8 min read

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 both over- and…

Marty Abbott

· 14 min read

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 companies, the definition…

Marty Abbott

· 8 min read

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 things like: "It doesn't…

Curtis Nielsen

· 5 min read

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 technology products…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

It's Good Housekeeping, not Tech Debt!

Do software initiatives such maintenance, upgrades and refactoring fall under the umbrella of Technical Debt? Perhaps a trick question, but when this body of work is planned proactively…

Heather Abbott

· 6 min read

The Danger Zone with Large Groups

How many people does it take to make a decision at your company? How many people does it take to launch a new feature for your product? To modernize and/or replace legacy functionality?…

Phillip Seawright

· 6 min read

Single Page Applications - Fault Isolation and Recovery

In my previous article, Browser Scalability, I addressed the ability of a stateful browser using a stateless strategy to scale web applications and add the dimension of fault isolation.…

David Blatherwick

· 5 min read

Single Page Applications – A New Dimension of Scale

Browsers have not been considered as a compute resource to aid in scalability and fault tolerance. Through the use of modern Java Script frameworks, the browser is now an integral…

David Blatherwick

· 12 min read

WTF are your employees doing all day? Are you really ready to move to Agile?

How many hours are a day are your employees in front of a computer? On their smart phone doing work?Are they working on planned work or unplanned work? Urgent work or non-urgent…

Phillip Seawright

· 5 min read

What is not tech debt

Recently we updated our definition of tech debt tech debt. As a follow on to that article, this post goes into areas that are not tech debt, but often confused or confounded with…

Heather Abbott

· 6 min read

What is Tech Debt and How to Think About It

Technical debt is a frequent topic we cover with clients. Technology products are never ‘done'. The art of keeping a platform optimized for product outcomes is a journey.…

Eric Arrington

· 5 min read
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