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 this productization of delivery is to relentlessly look for improvements. And you know how the 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, and extending that idea, your entire delivery pipeline can be also a product in its 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 and the ‘categorical imperative’. In the context of morality, the ‘categorical imperative’ principle is defined 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 / company leadership (e.g., VP Technology, Directors, etc.) Gaining seniority and experience as Technical Architects Incorporating 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 Development Lifecycle): Planning & estimations Requirements definition Managing the technical backlog CI/CD – continuous integration 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, map it out to business, technical and functional requirements and the end result is a 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 general and high-level knowledge is often more than enough to make huge differences not only 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 to manage. It has been proven many times that teams that are vertically aligned work 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 was Director of Technology in our Costa Rica office, and therefore I was responsible for Read more…