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Why You Need an Architecture Team

One of the most concerning trends we’ve seen lately is the nearly complete elimination of architecture teams. We’ve unfortunately seen several clients go down the path of eliminating…

xz Marty Abbott

March 9, 2022 · 8 min read

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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…

xz Phillip Seawright

March 9, 2022 · 8 min read

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Technical Product Owners Are a Symptom of An Agile Failure

Over the last decade or so, I have seen a reemergence of the dreaded “business analyst”. These folks were the wait-staff of the waterfall lifecycle, taking requests from the…

xz Marty Abbott

March 7, 2022 · 7 min read

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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…

xz Marty Abbott

February 16, 2022 · 11 min read

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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…

xz Heather Abbott

July 23, 2021 · 6 min read

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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?…

xz Phillip Seawright

July 21, 2021 · 6 min read

Leadership

Leadership Anti-Patterns

The world of software development is all abuzz with the notion of patterns and anti-patterns. Patterns are something we endeavor to follow and propagate as a best practice or path…

xz Marty Abbott

April 13, 2021 · 6 min read

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Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 3

This is the final post in a three-part series presenting leadership principles for product and tech executives. This week’s entry covers principles of team dynamics and behaviors…

xz Marty Abbott

March 29, 2021 · 5 min read

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CEO Guide to Product

Photo by airfocus.Welcome to our series of CEO Guides. The aim of these articles is to provide a short guide on key technology topics. These reflect the common questions we are…

xz Tanya Cordrey

March 8, 2021 · 8 min read

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Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 2

Photo by Jehyun Sung on UnsplashThis is the second in a three-part series presenting leadership principles for product and tech executives. This week’s entry covers principles…

xz Marty Abbott

March 5, 2021 · 5 min read

Category: Leadership

Why You Need an Architecture Team

CEO Guide to Innovation

Technical Product Owners Are a Symptom of An Agile Failure

CEO Guide to Managing a CTO

It's Good Housekeeping, not Tech Debt!

The Danger Zone with Large Groups

Leadership Anti-Patterns

Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 3

CEO Guide to Product

Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 2

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