I've written previously about firing your CTO in a hostile situation and how to survive your CTO leaving. In this post I'd like to talk about the process you as...

"Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does." W. Edwards Deming When your product and engineering team is struggling to deliver consistently, it is tempting to...

"Any organization that designs systems will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." Melvin Conway One of the questions I've been asked most often,...

On Decisions I was listening to the year-end episode of the All In podcast over the weekend. Though I don't love these kinds of "recap" shows, this show was great...

The most common complaints in software product companies are typically some form of the below: "We're spending all of this money and I don't know what I'm getting" "Our team...

Not too long ago, a company I know had a serious outage. The customer base was split across the old, legacy environment and the new public cloud, and there was...

"Humans tend to read things as events rather than an outcome of a system that can be predicted." Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows When software systems are failing, we...

Back in 2018, I started a company called Spellbound Partners with a business partner. Spellbound was started to address what we believed to be a gap in software company technology...

Hi there. It's been a while now, hasn't it? 2018 has been a pretty tough year. Regular blog posts and podcasts were a casualty of war. Thanks to all of...

Every month I publish a list of blogs, podcasts, books, products or anything else I consider to be a must-have or must-do. Hope you enjoy this month’s list. In case...

Every month I publish a list of blogs, podcasts, books, products or anything else I consider to be a must-have or must-do. Hope you enjoy this month’s list. Reading Fearless...

If you're the CEO of a new company and looking to hire, one of the more common questions, particularly if you're a first-time CEO and / or young is "Should...

Churn - To be turbulent or agitated If you're struggling with missed deadlines and unreliable schedules on your team, there could be an issue with churn in your process. There...

My guests for this show are Monica Wood and DeDe Houston, co-founders of Myxx Recipes. One of the biggest struggles for busy families is finding and making healthy meals at...

Microsoft recently announced the purchase of Github. Within minutes of the announcement, there was (and continues to be) mass hysteria. For readers of this blog, you'll know that I'm a...

Every month I publish a list of blogs, podcasts, books, products or anything else I consider to be a must-have or must-do. Hope you enjoy this month’s list. It's a...

How long does it take for a new developer on your team to be productive? If you've not thought about this question, or you don't know the answer, you're likely...

Every now and then a high school superstar athlete chooses a college that no one's ever heard of rather than one of the "premier" programs in their sport. There are...