Time for two more strategic directions from Sarah Taraporewalla. These look at the questions that need to be investigated when reducing cost, minimizing operation risk, and enabling data-driven decision making….
Join Tim Cochran and Rickey Zachary on Thursday, September 7th 1-2pm EST for a webinar on Bottlenecks of Scaleups: Technology mistakes every growing startup makes. They researched Thoughtwork’s portfolio to…
Any business that wants to grow needs to be built on strong and stable foundations. While these strategic directions are often familiar to technical folks it’s important that the improvements…
We are saddened today to learn of the passing of Stefan Tilkov. We’ve met Stefan several times at workshops and conferences and always enjoyed his good company and insightful views….
When scaleups need to start working on cost efficiency, our experience is that they need to form a cost optimization team to work on the immediate steps that are needed….
Sarah Taraporewalla moves on to the remaining two strategic directions that are part of growing the business. Expanding into new customer segments can introduce new operational processes or channels. Inorganic…
In her 5th memo about exploring GenAI for software development, Birgitta Böckeler answers the frequently asked question if coding assistants are making the practice of Pair Programming obsolete. Spoiler alert:…
My colleague Sarah Taraporewalla describes an approach to building technology strategy that challenges the convention. It starts by identifying the overall strategic directions that the organization is considering, and using…
While coding assistants like Copilot can improve speed and flow, they can also disrupt it. Birgitta Böckeler looks at two ways in which they can get in the way: amplifying…