Key Person Risk (KPR) arises when a team relies too heavily on one specialist. To reduce this, shift their role to an advisor. The specialist guides, others do the work. It’s slow at first, but builds team knowledge, confidence, and better documentation.
A fractional CTO can transform a company by addressing urgent technical issues while developing a long-term strategy. Beyond firefighting, a fractional CTO focuses on building a sustainable, self-sufficient team that can thrive independently after their involvement ends. This is how to get started.
Reflecting on work through retrospectives helps software teams improve by identifying what went well and what didn’t. This promotes continuous growth, stronger collaboration, and better performance. Creating action plans from these insights leads to higher-quality results and a more cohesive team.
Balancing innovation with stability is key in managing SaaS legacy code. You explore phased implementations, leveraging existing assets, and continuous learning to maximize legacy code potential. Ideal for tech leads and founders.
Discover effective strategies for managing technical debt and legacy code in software development. This comprehensive guide for founders explores the causes, impacts, and solutions to maintain sustainable growth and high-quality code.
In SaaS, shifting priorities and changing teams cause stress. Stable teams focus priorities but may lack roles, leaving floating members to juggle demands. A one-person service team can offer clarity, but careful prioritization and team restructuring are vital.
We often see competent technical leaders struggling to balance responsibilities in growing software teams. To help them, we now offer coaching and mentoring for SaaS CTOs with our new CTO Sounding Board service.
What is technical debt? How can you fix technical debt and what is the best approach to avoid technical debt?
Episode description On this episode of madewithlove’s Pulse podcast, we’ve invited Mike Veerman (Software strategist) to discuss with our own Vinch Battaglia (CTO in residence), Jonas Drieghe (Software engineer), and Dimitri Van Lunter (Engineering manager) things like: * What does it mean to be a software strategist, and what...