48 posts tagged leadership, newest first.
When your only technology leader walks out mid-roadmap, you don't have three months to hire. Here's what interim CTO services cover, when they beat a permanent hire, and the day rates to expect.
The hard part isn't deciding whether a fractional CTO helps — it's knowing when you've crossed the line from 'we're managing' to 'we need executive technology leadership.' Here are the signs and inflection points that answer it.
CodeStringers Announces Strategic Evolution to Zoho-Centered Digital Enablement Solutions for Operationally Complex Businesses.
A fractional CTO gives a growing company senior technology leadership part-time — the roadmap, architecture, and hiring judgment of a CTO without the full-time cost. Here's the full picture.
How to structure a software development team: the essential roles, how they work together, generalist vs specialist and cross-functional models, and how big the team should be.
In my first job out of college, I was a cost accountant at a chemical plant. Part of my job was to lead brainstorming meetings on cost savings with the workers. In the back of every meeting, chewing on a toothpick, was a grizzled old Vietnam War veteran named Bob. Bob was universally respected because he had the most seniority of anyone in the plant. But Bob wasn’t too happy about being in a meeting led by a 22-year-old kid. Whenever I, or anyone else, would make a suggestion, Bob would...
Last week, we discussed how we keep our promises, which differentiates us from most of the competition. We mentioned that we offer free “discovery” to our prospective clients, and that one benefit of this offer is the opportunity to evaluate clients before we agree to work with them. Internally, we call this our “No Jerk Policy” (we actually call it the “No A**hole Policy but this is a PG-rated blog, so we’ll censor ourselves). This policy of ours, put in other words, means that we won’t...
This week’s This American Life episode really got me thinking. It’s a story about a guy named Ken who unknowingly stumbled into the NFT gold rush. Ken was working a regular job at Amazon, and in his spare time, he created a site called Pixelmap. He built it to practice a new programming language. Ken forgot about it until he was contacted by an online influencer named Adam McBride, who informed him that Ken had created one of the first NFT sites in history. Consequently, he was sitting on...
Hollywood seems to be obsessed lately with famous start-up scammers. Browse through your Netflix, and you’ll see that Billy McFarland, Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes, and Anna Delvey have documentaries or TV series about how they defrauded investors out of millions and even billions of dollars. I admit it, I’ve seen them all. At first, I thought it was just a guilty pleasure. But upon reflection, I think these shows teach the wrong lessons and draw the wrong conclusions. In each case, the...
A fractional CTO gives a small business senior technology leadership for a fraction of a $400K+ full-time hire. Here's what fractional CTO services cost, what they actually do, and how to tell whether your business needs one.
Hire a Zoho developer who can actually code, not just configure. What Deluge/API/Creator skills to look for, how to vet them, in-house vs freelancer vs firm, and what it really costs.
There was a time when building software meant mastering programming languages, navigating complex frameworks, and spending months - or years - crafting every feature from the ground up. Today, that landscape is changing faster than many anticipated. Thanks to the explosive rise of no-code platforms like Webflow, Bubble, and Make, non-technical professionals are building apps, automating workflows, and launching digital products - without ever opening a code editor. The tools are intuitive,...
"Something isn't working." "We're outgrowing our tools." "We're afraid to make the wrong move." No-Risk Discovery is a short, practical conversation that gets you clarity before you commit to anything big. We'll tell you if we're a fit. If we're not, we'll tell you that too.
