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Posts with reflections, learnings, and experiences from Fractional CTOs

Sep 13, 2023 • Blog, cto • 8 min read

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 …

Sep 6, 2023 • Blog, cto • 5 min read

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 …

Sep 6, 2023 • Blog, cto • 2 min read

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 …

Aug 23, 2023 • Blog, automation • 3 min read

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 …

Aug 4, 2023 • Blog, architecture • 3 min read

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 …

Jul 25, 2023 • Blog, code reviews • 7 min read

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 …

Jul 20, 2023 • Blog, kanban • 3 min read

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 …

Jul 14, 2023 • Blog, strategy • 4 min read

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 …

Jun 15, 2023 • Blog, programming • 4 min read

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 …