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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower Innovation

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. A CTO can help you find the right answers. Instead, they should consider a Fractional CTO who can help close the gap. It might be.

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Want a High-Performing Org? Learn from Gene Kim’s “Wiring the Winning Organization”

Planview

Dr. Mik Kersten, CTO at Planview and author of the best-selling book Project to Product , recently welcomed Gene as a repeat guest on his podcast, Mik + One. He served as the founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. Each system is actually an incomplete expression of a simpler, greater idea.

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The Unimportance of Practically Everything

Harvard Business Review

In The Quality Control Handbook , Juran called it "The Law of the Vital Few." Much later, Joseph Moses Juran , one of the fathers of the quality movement, called the insight the "Pareto Principle" and applied it beyond economics. He found a willing audience in Japan, where the country had been producing low-cost, low-quality goods.