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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower CTO

Background Information Review Our first step is to review existing background materials. Our goal is to build a decent understanding of your business, your product, and your technology. While this can be a challenging conversation, it’s not as hard to get technical leaders on-board as you might think.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc. CTO Knowledge and Skill I personally believe that the best CTOs will have a technical/developer background. Establishing technical direction can be really hard these days.

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Pitfalls of Agile Transformations

LeanEssays

I wondered how much of what we have learned in the last decade will inform this budding agile transformation. If they hire the right consultants and use the best practices, they assume they will be fine. I sensed that the answer was “not enough.” This kind of wishful thinking only lengthens the list of mediocre agile transformations.

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