So by now you know I'm a software guy. But what makes me an ecosystem guy? Back in 2020 the pandemic closed down our physical office and made it possible to make my partner's and my long-time dream of living in the mountains a reality. Whether
Communicating technical debt to people other than engineers is essential to getting work on that debt prioritized and valued alongside bugs and product roadmap work, and it’s not easy at all. One key quality distinguishing a good engineering leader from a great one is the ability to bring engineers
I've run the tech side of the M&A playbook now I think 10 times. I want to talk to fellow tech executives who are looking at acquiring a company about tech diligence and what it's for. In 2021 we bought a 30 acre hobby
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For me, all of software architecture and in fact product-development organization exists in an ecosystem. The parameters of this ecosystem change over time with respect to your products, related products, and the tech landscape overall. And the great challenge, of a tech organization writ-large is to evolve. I'm
This is the first entry in my series on Production Python. Some of the later entries in this will be paid subscribers only, but I consider showing people how to connect to a database correctly a public service, so here goes. One of the most frustrating things for me over
In my career I’ve been a software engineer, an engineering leader, a product leader, and a senior executive. But I have always come at the problems I solve in all of these roles as an engineer first. There are a lot of different product-development org structures out there, but