CTO & Co-Founder at Gehtsoft USA. 30+ years in FinTech, SaaS, and B2B systems. Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, PSD, PSPO II, Azure Developer. Fractional CTO via Robust Agile
TL;DR. Moral superiority sells well. And this is why we see it a lot. It gives easy wins today. But it steals the future. If you don’t manage it, or better, avoid it, it replaces thinking with righteousness. Engineers, including CTOs, cannot afford that. We are paid to
Funny thing: most companies don’t slow down because of strategy, talent, or market pressure. They slow down because their technology quietly starts working against them. That force has a name: technical debt. And despite how it sounds, it is not just an engineering issue. It is a business constraint.
by Someone Who Remembers Life Before the Hype Cycle Let us begin with the obvious: everyone, everywhere, is talking about AI. Loudly. In all directions. Some believe it will save us; others think it will destroy us, and a few suspect it might merely rearrange our calendars with passive-aggressive flair.
When I was younger, the thought of a project failing filled me with fear. It seemed like a painful and humiliating experience, something I wanted to avoid at all costs. However, as I delved deeper into the beautiful world of project management, I began to see things differently. I learned
One of the biggest challenges during the Agile transformation is to help people become agile and stay agile. Experts of Agile management encourage us to define the boundaries for our employees [1]. Agile coaching gurus call us to set and enforce high expectations [2]. I know you understand the importance
Recently I have a few conversations about the possibility of TDD implementation in projects with rich waterfall history. I was surprised by how much the test pyramid’s popular explanations are misleading people, putting everything upside-down. In this article, I want to clarify the key ideas of the test pyramid.
