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The True Cost of Custom Features: 3 Painful Taxes
That feature you built to help close a lucrative deal? — You lost money on it.
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The New CTO's Survival Guide: Rescuing a System at its Breaking Point
You've just stepped into your role as CTO, only to inherit a revenue-generating system that's gasping for air. With 3,000 daily active users pushing the…
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The Dangers of Being Indispensable: A CTO’s Rescue Mission
When an irreplaceable leader left behind potential chaos, I stepped in and discovered two ways to be indispensable.
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How a CTO's Strategic Questions Saved a Startup from Hell
Asking the right business questions prevented a fintech startup from getting trapped in a badly structured partnership deal.
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Agile + Scrum — a convenient fiction
Enabling agile software development in command-and-control style companies.
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How I align tech initiatives to business goals
A CTO's job is to align tech strategy with the company's business strategy. The most valuable part of my job is helping clients achieve this. This is…
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5 revealing questions for startup CEOs to assess their CTOs
These 5 litmus-test questions are designed to be highly indicative of problems, or to justify and even increase your confidence in your CTO.
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Web Apps are Native Apps
Why native apps aren't necessarily your best option.
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How much uptime can I afford?
99.5% uptime is more cost-effective than 99.99% for most startups!
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Agile software development — 5 essential facts for startup CEOs
The 5 essentials that startup CEOs should know about Agile software development:
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Escape the Feature Factory trap using Business Impact Categories & Budgets
Problem
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85% of New Features FAIL & Feature Cost Inflation
85% of new features fail — in the best companies.
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