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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower Innovation

Would you create contracts without an attorney? The Strategic Technical Advisor looks at the business and determines what makes sense from a technology perspective in the short-term and longer-terms. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle? We’ve talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer.

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Don’t Miss These 7 Sessions From the Project to Product Summit

Planview

Watch Now FedEx: Getting the data you need to optimize flow Title: Combining the Power of VSM and OKRs to Optimize Flow and Accelerate Speed to Value Speaker: Greschen Powell, Senior Consultant at FedEx What you’ll learn: Getting to an optimized state of flow starts with data.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower Innovation

The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology?

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower Innovation

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. It also provides concrete recommendations for improvements.

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The Unimportance of Practically Everything

Harvard Business Review

His observation was that you could massively improve the quality of a product by resolving a tiny fraction of the problems. In The Quality Control Handbook , Juran called it "The Law of the Vital Few." He found a willing audience in Japan, where the country had been producing low-cost, low-quality goods.

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Why Agile Goes Awry — and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. Agile software development. Frameworks for adaptive software development like Agile, have been around for a long time, and have manifested in many forms.

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