Everything can be made up for—except modularity
Good modularity lets you tolerate crummy code locally and fix it later without breaking everything.
Posts tagged “CEO”
Take back control of your development, without the illusion of estimates
Don’t ask, “How long will this take?” Instead, ask yourself if you can break your work down into even smaller pieces.
Software quality is too important to be left to your CTO (or the art of shooting yourself in the foot)
Producing high-quality software involves organizational aspects that go beyond technology and can undermine the CTO’s efforts.
€10,000 to save €500: the true ROI of modularization
A lack of modularity is costly. Investing in a modular architecture protects your software and prevents massive financial losses.
5 Tips for Hiring Tech Professionals
Here are a few pieces of advice, drawn from my experience working with companies, that I wish I’d had back when I was a manager.
B2B Software Publishers: Your Customer Pays You, but They’re Killing You
Co-creating your product with your first customers is a good thing. However, that doesn’t mean giving in to all their requests.
Waterfall: A Recipe for Failure
Sequential methodologies do not work for business IT, primarily because of the tunnel effect. The alternative? Agility.
Buying high-quality code means choosing to cry only once
Developing quickly without mastery invariably leads to the accumulation of technical debt. Invest in it now—it will cost you less in the long run.
5 Questions for Antoine Sauvage, CTO of Ovrsea
Now, let’s hear from one of my clients, Ovrsea. Antoine, the CTO, explains how the idea to bring in coaching for his teams came about and what it has changed.
The debt wall
Technical debt is dangerous because it accumulates silently, until the day the company hits a wall. CEOs, take the lead.