What does a Fractional CTO do?
A Fractional CTO is a person who has previous experience working as a CTO, and who has decided to offer this experience as a service.
Startup Mistakes: Hiring a full-stack developer as CTO
In this post I talk about why it is not a good idea to hire a full-stack developer for the cto position as many startups do.
Startup Strategy 101: 10 Tech and Product Errors to Avoid
In this post I will talk about common mistakes I have observed when defining the technology and product strategy in a startup;
Norway: The country of self-service?
This summer traveling in Norway I was surprised to see the high degree of self-service stores. The experiences seem very efficient but it is strange how little social interaction there is.
Relationship between team organization and application architecture
This relationship is known as Conway’s law, which was made by Melvin Conway in 1967 and reads as follows: “Organizations that design systems […] are limited to producing designs that are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” Communication within the team is frequent and
Guide to do Code Reviews in your team
Objectives and steps to follow to make a good code review.
Is your Scrum suffering from low productivity? Your problem could be WIP
Are you aware of how work in progress (or WIP) affects the productivity of your team?
AI is not the product
Lately I have spoken to several founders who have told me that people have been asking them to do things with AI for their products/services. Clearly there is a hype, and a lot of attention is being focused around AI. In addition, there seems to be
When abstractions leak
In the software world we constantly use abstractions to make our work easier, as they abstract us from other domains and significantly reduce the complexity we have to deal with. An example of abstraction is ORMs. An ORM allows us to abstract the application from the
The cost of being reactive vs. being proactive
Two arrows on the ground indicate two different paths: being proactive or reactive