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Establishing Technical Leadership as a Strategic Function for Scalable Organizations
I receive a good chunk of emails and messages from people in my network asking for general technical advice (infrastructure, architecture, picking the right platform or vendor, etc.) And many of them openly disclose they have spoken with 5–10 people and brainstormed over the different answers they get. Asking for a hundred different opinions may…
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How to Assemble a High-Performing Team
Having spent the last 11 years growing an agency, one of the factors we consistently focus on optimizing is building and maintaining a high-performance team. Agencies are a weird beast that gets scrutinized all the time. Why? Agencies are a combination of them all. The feast-and-famine cycle leads to irregular levels of work, sales, and…
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How to Incorporate Technology to Solve Business Problems
A couple of years ago, I gathered the 38 top business challenges across all industries. They fall within several main segments: While tech is self-explanatory (and notably solved with technology itself), software and hardware solutions can contribute to easier organization in the long run. Traditional methods for organization often rely on manual processes, paper trails,…
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What Does Technical Debt Mean?
What makes a $2,000 development project different from a $40K one? Code quality. The $2,000 project incurs the so-called “technical debt”. A messy, spaghetti-like codebase is 5x, 10x, 20x more complicated to maintain, which skyrockets the maintenance costs over time. Technical debt is a well-known phenomenon in tech. But due to the price cuts, it…