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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. Instead, given a startup project, they’ll default to building everything in-house, using technologies that they’re already familiar with.

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

Planview

Technology companies want to deliver products better and faster, but as it is, demand often exceeds capacity, visibility is limited, rework is too common, and investments lack focus. 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.

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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.