Great CTOs Focus on outcomes

Great CTOs Focus on outcomes An experienced software product development leader shares their experience creating great products and services people love.

Its tempting to start with the solutions we have in mind and make them the goal or measure of progress. What is wrong wi...
07/09/2025

Its tempting to start with the solutions we have in mind and make them the goal or measure of progress. What is wrong with this approach?

Informal goal-setting approaches such as OKRs don't provide much guidance on how to identify or refine goals. Here are s...
06/09/2025

Informal goal-setting approaches such as OKRs don't provide much guidance on how to identify or refine goals. Here are some questions that helped us.

An important aspect of OKRs is that they are deceptively simple in structure. This is part of the appeal. Easy to draft,...
05/09/2025

An important aspect of OKRs is that they are deceptively simple in structure. This is part of the appeal. Easy to draft, easy to consume.

One challenge of introducing team-level goals is that it can draw focus to the short-term and local optimisation. Here's...
04/09/2025

One challenge of introducing team-level goals is that it can draw focus to the short-term and local optimisation. Here's where higher-level goals help.

What a crisis teaches us about planning & prioritisation and what we can learn from a crisis about operating better in u...
02/09/2025

What a crisis teaches us about planning & prioritisation and what we can learn from a crisis about operating better in usual times.

What a crisis teaches us about planning & prioritisation
01/09/2025

What a crisis teaches us about planning & prioritisation

What enduring lessons can be taken from how we respond to failure?
31/08/2025

What enduring lessons can be taken from how we respond to failure?

Why does a crisis help us challenge our assumptions? How could we 'bottle' this for us in normal times?
30/08/2025

Why does a crisis help us challenge our assumptions? How could we 'bottle' this for us in normal times?

A crisis can help catalyse attention to critical business areas that need improvement by the way it demonstrates the imp...
29/08/2025

A crisis can help catalyse attention to critical business areas that need improvement by the way it demonstrates the importance of the area for smooth running and the degree of focus.

What we can learn about better software product development from experiencing a crisis and what we can do moving forward...
28/08/2025

What we can learn about better software product development from experiencing a crisis and what we can do moving forward.

A problem I have been looking at in recent years are the side-effects of being solution-centric in communications and de...
27/08/2025

A problem I have been looking at in recent years are the side-effects of being solution-centric in communications and decision-making.

Fomenting significant change in an organisation is hard. Any attempts that don't consider the different types of incenti...
25/08/2025

Fomenting significant change in an organisation is hard. Any attempts that don't consider the different types of incentives at play in an organisation will fail.

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