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February 2025

Paid Subscribers Only: Quality vs speed in software development: insights for CEOs
We’ve long thought software dev a trade-off of quality vs speed. This has been said in many ways, e.g. ‘good, fast, cheap: pick any two’. On shallow…
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Daniel Walters
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On Business Leaders' Hypocritical Attitudes Towards AI and People
There's lots of excitement about the potential of AI and, of late, agentic AI and what it reveals about how AI is desired to be used is in contradiction…
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Daniel Walters
Multiple Points of Coherence can Help People be More Confident They are Aligned
In performance measurement and goal setting, the pattern of separating the goal from the evidence of progress has another benefit: testing and…
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Daniel Walters

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A CTO's Guide to Time Management
To be strategic, CTOs need blocks of time available for deep thinking and collaboration to maintain a standard they hold themselves to. Here's how to…
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Daniel Walters
Are you complicit in 'Agile-washing' cost-cutting?
Digital Transformation became a big business in the years before the pandemic. The Agile Certification Industrial Complex rode the wave. Were you…
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Daniel Walters
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Celebrating the independent developers
In a world where the resilience of cross-functional teams prevails and hero cultures are rightfully criticised, I thought it would be interesting to…
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