In Part 1 of the “Delivery as a Product” post, I described how important it is to capture and analyze metrics about your delivery pipeline. This is critical because one of the main goals of Read more…
This might become the first of a series of posts about how to build highly efficient and performing teams. As you can guess, building best-in-class teams require many different facets and skills, but in this Read more…
When you have a team that is building a customer-facing product, it’s a common mistake to build your entire product team and associated processes around the application. In fact, you can model everything as a product, Read more…
Designing and building software for the enterprise require a different approach and mindset. That the principle of ‘big picture thinking‘ plays a critical role should come as no surprise. Questions you should ask yourself are: Read more…
I was recently reading about Immanuel Kant and how he transformed the philosophical world with his ideas and balanced approach to empiricism and rationalism. One of his main contributions was his work on morality, ethics Read more…
It feels like I have written about this many times in this lifetime, and probably many more in others. Yet I still feel like there is so much to say about it. It’s core and Read more…
The Context Before you accuse me of clickbait – here me out. This is a very important lesson for people that want to grow into leadership roles. Technical leads and developers growing into product / Read more…
For many years I’ve been responsible for setting up technology and software development processes, for our clients, and for our company. This includes all the different items you would typically associate with the SDLC (Software Read more…
Hundreds of articles have been written about Zwift, its success, and how it took the cycling and indoor trainer world by storm. Yet I haven’t seen one that goes a little deeper than just the Read more…
But they complement each other… We should think about these tools as complementary rather than one or the other. In general, performance marketing’s goal is to drive higher conversion rates, create new customers/users and increase Read more…
The benefits of cloud computing and all its flavors have been well documented already. For the purpose of this post I will not dive deep into the overall pros & cons. I will focus on Read more…
Making a decision around IT and/or product investments can be a daunting task, as it comes with high level of accountability and risks for which you’ll need to do a thorough assessment of likelihood & Read more…
One of the most common tasks that fall within your responsibility as a lead, director, or architect, is the decision making process around CMS platforms. You’ll have to evaluate different platforms, their capabilities and functionality, Read more…
This is a story of working better together, becoming more efficient and producing best-in-class, high quality products as a result. I’m not talking about designers (both UX and Creative) becoming expert programmers, just about how Read more…
UX -> hands of to Creative -> hands off to Dev -> hands off to QA. Sounds familiar? Teams that work as separate disciplines and in isolation are destined to be inefficient, inflexible and costly Read more…
One of the recurring questions I get asked all the time is about how to setup successful and painless offshoring practices. I’ve been lucky enough to have been on both sides of the coin. I Read more…