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CTO Hiring Checklist

Whether you are considering a fractional CTO, an interim CTO, a full time CTO, or you just want to “coach up” your current CTO this list is a good place to start to help you…

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

Product team checklist for aligning product management and engineering

Image Used by Permission from Photo by Joshua Coleman on UnsplashBuilding product team alignment is critical for success. One of the most damaging situations is when the product…

Tanya Cordrey

· 6 min read

Barriers to Digital Transformations

Travel bans this year have freed up several days a month previously spent in transit to now work with a larger variety of clients, resulting in a greater sample size of common…

Pete Ferguson

· 7 min read

Top ten product discovery mistakes: How product teams get continuous discovery wrong

(Photo by Noble Mitchell on Unsplash)Continuous product discovery is an important phase when building great products but unfortunately many teams get discovery wrong. The premise…

Tanya Cordrey

· 5 min read

Microservices Architecture Gateway Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

Gateway Pattern Relationships and Other Names The microservice Gateway pattern often goes by other names, including API Gateway pattern and Gateway Offloading Pattern. As the Gateway…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Why tech and product leaders need to think about gross margins

Image Used by Permission from StockSnap from PixabayThe importance of gross marginGross margin is a key business measure that should be regularly assessed as part of CTOs’and…

Tanya Cordrey

· 6 min read

Change Management in a Continuous Delivery World

One way to create a "stable" service is to limit the number of changes made to the system. Limiting change may improve stability, but it may also limit the ability of your business…

AKF

· 3 min read

Cloud Software – Will I save costs? It’s all about Optionality and Time to Market

When we work with CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs, we frequently get asked these questions:- Is moving to the cloud cheaper? - Are there real cost savings (of moving to the cloud)? - Can…

Phillip Seawright

· 4 min read

What IS Agile - and What Agile is NOT

(Image Used by Permission from Mark Shead) Two years ago I became a “certified Scrum Master.” Not a lot was required. I was sent advance reading materials and then I attended…

Pete Ferguson

· 4 min read

Scalability Rules - Reduce Objects to Improve Website Performance (Rule 5)

Every wonder what really makes a website tick? Or why some sites seem slower or faster than expected? Well, rest assured, there are straight-forward answers. Today we are going…

Curtis Nielsen

· 6 min read

Safely Paying Down Technical Debt for CIOs

Synopsis: This is a post focused on technical debt for traditional IT, or for teams focused on solutions for internal employees. This post helps CIOs (leaders of IT teams - not…

Phillip Seawright

· 6 min read

Reduce DNS lookups to improve website performance (Rule 4)

Believe it or not, website speed is directly related to conversion and revenue. One element that delays the time before a user can interact with a website is DNS lookups. In this…

Curtis Nielsen

· 4 min read

Architectural Principles: Build vs. Buy

In many of our technical due diligence engagements, it is common to find that companies are building tools with considerable development effort (and ongoing maintenance) for something…

Pete Ferguson

· 5 min read

Technical Debt for CIOs Leads to Organizational Debt for CEOs

Explanation of technical debt for CIOs of non-software product companies Digital product companies, primarily those companies that were built with the internet as the primary customer…

Phillip Seawright

· 3 min read
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