Great CTOs Focus on outcomes

24/11/2025

Every organisation has aspects that has room for improvement. Areas where if sharing with someone outside the organisation there would be some shame.

23/11/2025

Most effort estimating software development is waste. Here's why and where our effort is better spent.

22/11/2025

Just because it can be done should always be balanced with should it be done. Thinking about what you are trying to achieve holistically can help detect when these are in conflict.

21/11/2025

As the date approached for me to become a father I binged parenting advice. This was the most useful piece advice I found.

20/11/2025

Here are some of the common ways I've seen organisations get stuck in a rut. Often more than one of these are in effect at once.

19/11/2025

In 2005 Stephen Colbert coined the word 'Truthiness' to express when statements are deemed true based on intuition rather than evidence and logic. How is this relevant in organisations?

18/11/2025

Individual performance management is often treated like a load-bearing wall i.e. hard to move or change. But what if it actively undermines the collective goals of the organisation?

17/11/2025

When your expertise applies to the qualitative aspects of a product or service, it can be a challenge to articulate the importance of issues. Here's how I approach this.

When your expertise applies to the qualitative aspects of a product or service, it can be challenging to articulate the importance of these issues. Here's how I approach this.

16/11/2025

I've been asked a few times how I've maintained my posting frequency. It's something I struggled with when I started blogging so here's what I've learned.

15/11/2025

If I distill what might be almost universally useful advice into principles one would be along the lines of 'Make the implicit, explicit'

Of the lessons I've learned over my career, of those that are nearly universally helpful advice, if I were to distil them into principles, one would be, 'Make the implicit explicit.'

14/11/2025

Organisations have long tracked progress through the completion of tasks and projects. When we are outcome-oriented progress is best understood with evidence.

13/11/2025

In the desire to lift things up to a high enough level for executives the temptation can be to aggregate up all detail. Here's where that can go wrong.