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How to Adopt AI in a Software Team

Does your AI adoption strategy consist of giving out Copilot, Cursor, or Claude licenses and letting them figure out how to use them?

Over the past …

Why We Moved Away from WordPress

Two years ago, when this website was created, WordPress was practically the default option for creating landing pages and blogs. Being a visual tool …

Guide to robust development with AI: Cursor and Github Copilot

AI code assistants have recently spread due to the power they offer to speed up software development. However, learning to use them is not as simple …

Is Coaching Useful for a CTO?

Last year, I enrolled in a coaching course. I decided to do this after realizing that my work as a Fractional CTO involved a lot of mentoring, helping …

Groundhog day

It will soon be 4 years since the world changed and remote working became more popular. Initially adopted as a way of limiting social contact, it was …

¿Agile vs Waterfall?

In a world where agility has become the norm for managing software projects, wondering if Waterfall and traditional project management is an option …

Systems Thinking

Occasionally I work with clients who have a major problem in delivering on time and to the agreed quality. When I start to investigate the causes I …

The impact of culture on performance

This week I want to talk about a podcast from techlead journal (link at the end), in which they interview the author of the book Wrong fit, right fit. …

How to conduct effective meetings

There is often talk about whether meetings are worthwhile, and whether they should be abolished altogether because they are a waste of time. …

Why do ChatBots hallucinate?

Those of you who have used ChatGPT, Google Bard or similar, have probably found that sometimes these chatbots make up the answers to our questions. …

Do you know what DPE is?

DPE stands for Developer Productivity Engineering and is the name of a new discipline that aims to improve developer productivity through automation, …

What does a Fractional CTO do?

A Fractional CTO is a professional who has worked as a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in technology companies or startups and now offers this …

Startup Mistakes: Hiring a full-stack developer as CTO

Some startups hire a full-stack developer for the CTO position, because they do not have the budget for an experienced CTO. There is a belief that in …

Startup Strategy 101: 10 Tech and Product Errors to Avoid

When you start a startup you have a blank sheet of paper: the possibilities are endless and while it is true that there is no 100% effective manual on …

Norway: The country of self-service?

This summer I have been traveling around Norway and I have been surprised to see how most of the stores adopt to a greater or lesser extent the …

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 …

Guide to do Code Reviews in your team

Code reviews are a practice that has become widespread in recent years, where one or more developers review the new code implemented by another …

Is your Scrum suffering from low productivity? Your problem could be WIP

It has been proven that the more work in progress a person or a team has, the more time it takes to close tasks. On the one hand, if we are doing …

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 …

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 …

The cost of being reactive vs. being proactive

On countless occasions we hear that we need to be more proactive. In other words, taking the initiative and anticipating problems. But being proactive …

A short reflection on AI and low cost

It seems that one of the debates surrounding AI centres on whether this technology will eliminate a large number of jobs by matching or surpassing …

Revisiting Agile Methodologies: XP, Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban

It’s been almost 10 years since I started working with agile. I remember my first experience was when I was working in southern France for …

How to Do Load Testing for APIs

If you’ve ever developed a web application designed to handle a significant volume of users, you’ve faced the question of determining what …