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Articles and Blogs

This is a list of the articles that we have published as blog posts or reports. These resources are available free of charge. The only thing we ask is that if you use any of these in whole or part you give us credit by linking back to us.  

Product Management

• Do You Need Product Management?
• Video and Software Development
• Getting From Idea To Product

Engineering

• To Get Better You Must Practice
• Scalability Architect
• Risk Assessment
• Fault Isolative Architectures or “Swimlaning”
• Splitting Databases for Scale
• Splitting Applications or Services for Scale
• Fast or Right?
• SOA vs ROA
• A Case for Technology Agnostic Design (TAD)
• Branching
• How to interview engineers
• What every engineer needs to know

CTO/CIO

• Recommended Reading
• Incenting Success in Technology Organizations
• Joint Application Design & Architecture Review Board
• Business Acumen and the CIO/CTO
• Top 20 Mistakes in Technology
• The Bug is in the Code!
• What to do in the first 30 days!
• Build v. Buy
• Path to CTO/CIO

Leadership

• Check Your Ego at the Door
• Mission First, People Always
• Be A Leader!
• Seed, Feed and Weed to Succeed
• Building High Performance Teams

CEO

• Ethics: How Good Companies Go Bad
• Five Essential Attributes of Great Technology Company CEOs
• Management 101
• How Technical Does The CEO Need To Be?