Posts by Scott Barstow

Every month, on or near the 15th, I publish a list of blogs, podcasts, books, products or anything else I consider to be a must-have or must-do. This month's list...

This is the third in a series of posts about documenting technology product builds. If you missed the intro, Part 1 - Use Cases, or Part 2 - Requirements, go check them out....

This is the second in a series of posts about documenting technology product builds. If you missed the intro or Part 1 - Use Cases, go check them out. At...

In our last post in this series on Documenting Your Product, we talked about Use Cases. At the end of the last post, I said we'd talk about writing technical...

This is the first in a series of posts about documenting technology product builds. If you missed the intro to the series, read it now. At the end of this...

When you start building your product, there are any number of paths you can take. If you're a developer or have a technologist on the founding team, you can just...

Each month, on or around the 15th, I provide a list of books, podcasts, articles, music and occasionally an actual material good that I've come across over the last month...

I came across this article by Jesse Watson thanks to a friend. It is an excellent, thorough analysis of the pros and cons of distributed (remote) development teams, but more...

And... we're back. If you're just joining, every month on or near the 15th I share things I've read, products I've used, music I've listened to and anything else that...

It's not often I read a book and immediately put the practice into action, but I recently did with Deep Work by Cal Newport. While the subject matter of the...

Over the past couple of years, I've done fractional CTO work for a number of startups, both in Raleigh-Durham, NC and elsewhere. There are times when this model works really...

So, you've fallen out of love with your CTO, have you? Ready to pull the trigger and make them exit stage left? Not so fast. Every senior-level person in a...

There are two ways to present yourself when you join a new company: You already know everything about the company and their problems You are there to discover the details...

You know the drill by now. Every month, on or near the 15th, I publish a list of blogs, podcasts, books, products or anything else I consider to be a...

I was listening to the How I Built This episode with Herb Kelleher last night and something he said leapt out at me. Herb continued his law practice for the...

If your company is under 50 employees, everyone on your team has real work to do every day that isn't managing. In other words, you can't have people on your...

I don't know about you, but I go through periods where my brain simply refuses to work, refuses to generate fresh thinking. It's during those times that I find myself...

This is the last post in my series on Building Distributed Teams. So far, we've covered why you need to be building a distributed team,  what makes an ideal distributed...