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Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 2

Principles of team construction and workflow for product and technology executives. Part 2 in a 3 part series.

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders

Leadership principles for engineering and product leaders

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

Claim-Check Pattern: When To Split a Large Message Into a Claim-Check and a Payload

The Claim-Check approach is an architectural pattern for creating additional capacity for a message bus by persisting the entire payload into an external datastore and only sending…

Dave Berardi

· 3 min read

Microservices Saga Pattern

Saga OverviewThe saga pattern attempts to coordinate or manage the notion of transactional consistency across multiple services when a transaction is comprised of several distributed…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Event Sourcing Microservices Pattern

Description of the event sourcing microservices pattern including advice on how and when to implement.

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

Interim CTO case study: Moving to a Cloud First Strategy at Speed

Interim CTO case study: Moving rapidly to a cloud first approach within a large enterprise

Heather Abbott

· 8 min read

When to hire an interim or fractional CTO

When to hire an interim or fractional CTO. And where it can go wrong

Tanya Cordrey

· 5 min read

CEO Guide: How to hire a great CTO

How to hire a great CTO CEO guide to technology

Tanya Cordrey

· 8 min read

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 define expectations, create your job description, coach up your current CTO and land a great future CTO.

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

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

Tanya Cordrey

· 5 min read

Microservices Architecture Gateway Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

Description of the microservices architecture gateway pattern and advice on usage.

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Why tech and product leaders need to think about gross margins

Gross margin is a key business measure that should be regularly assessed as part of CPOs’and CTOs’strategic thinking. Many of their decisions have a significant impact on a company’s gross margin which is an important indicator of future profits. And the larger the gross margin, the more money there is to invest in product development going forward.

Tanya Cordrey

· 6 min read

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