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Competing against incumbents: Flank them
It’s exceedingly unlikely that your company and products operate in a world without competitors or alternatives to you. This is especially true in the…
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SaaS tiered pricing: why do it & its implications to engineering
If you’ve been a customer of some popular SaaS applications, odds are that you are familiar with the pricing tiers that these vendors offer. The most…
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Embracing the uncertainty: Risk management in product planning
My previous post addressed some of the more common anti-patterns that arise when planning for future investments to make on your products. The…
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On developer productivity: flow to grow
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Adventures in hill climbing with AI
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Software 2.0 vs Software 1.0
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5 common mistakes in product planning
Product planning, or more specifically creating a product roadmap, is an exercise that all R&D organizations will undertake. Some will do that on a…
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How can engineering learn from sales losses?
Losing sucks, but can be great way to learn and grow.
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Is "do more with less" the right question to ask?
That was the topic of an event I attended last week. The event was organized through the very fine people at ELC and included a host of engineering…
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Writing: An overlooked engineering leadership skill?
I think "yes", but I am biased
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Unlocking the Power of AI: Revolutionizing Software Development
Title based on this ChatGPT prompt: "what is a good title for a blog post on using AI for software development?"
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How to not dig yourself into a $65M hole
Model, validate and track
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Prioritizing engineering work-items: A real-life knapsack problem
One of the most popular, and frequently applied, optimization problems is the knapsack problem, which states the following: Given a set of items, each…
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A newsletter for heads of engineering at startups. I cover the joys and challenges of running software engineering organizations at fast-paced startups.
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