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Quality vs. speed in software development: insights for CEOs(hyprinnovation.io)
1 points by wioota 2y ago|0 comments
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by wioota 2y ago
Time management might seem like a prosaic topic, but for any CTO who aspires to be more strategic, it starts with being in control of one's time.
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OKRs vs. KPIs: How CTOs Can Leverage Both for Lasting Improvement(greatcto.me)
2 points by wioota 2y ago|0 comments
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Seven unchallenged assumptions stunting your company's growth(wioota.substack.com)
1 points by wioota 2y ago|0 comments
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A game to foster safe conversations on responsibilities within teams(wioota.substack.com)
2 points by wioota 2y ago|0 comments
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by wioota 2y ago
How some tool providers describe OKRs it can be over-engineered I agree. You need to adapt tonyour context. E.g. startups can use OKRs but should be very lean about it. OKRs aren't really a framework - there's not lots of things y
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by wioota 2y ago
There isn't really one way to do OKRs - you can read a dozen different descriptions and have a dozen variations. It's not a formal methodology but rather an approach that for a long time was passed around organically based on some
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by wioota 2y ago
If it's seen as chore it's doomed to fail. Where I have seen it work well are in competitive markets such as SAAS companies battling for market share. The maturity for using measurement for decision making is higher because to do
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by wioota 2y ago
Might be semantics as the changes I describe are fairly substantial compared to how many companies implement them. I did think of not calling it OKRs anymore at the time but the effort to rebrand it internally didn't seem worth the pay
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by wioota 2y ago
Bad leadership will make a meal of any approach to work, its true. OKRs are not easy - they take good leadership, discipline and a culture which is open to feedback and committed to learning and adapting to what it learns. I wouldn't
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by wioota 2y ago
Achievable and valuable definitely more valuable than hard. I do suggest it's healthy not to 100% know how you might achieve the goal over the period - its good to be open to options and look for evidence you are making progress. I thi
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by wioota 2y ago
100% agree. Lots of other things need to be in a good healthy state for OKRs to be useful. Some of these are cultural such as it being safe to give feedback and a propensity to act on what is learnt. The ability to capture and update the pe
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Improving OKRs(wioota.substack.com)
63 points by wioota 2y ago|49 comments
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by wioota 4y ago
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 an approach that may help you.
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Influencing tip for engineers: Help others see what you see(wioota.substack.com)
3 points by wioota 4y ago|1 comments
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by wioota 4y ago
Wow, didn't even think to post this here. Pretty cool :) Happy to chat about this post here or in the comments on my publication, Focus on outcomes.
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by wioota 16y ago
NodeJS, github and the Cloud9ide (powered by ACE editor) is a pretty good ecosystem for this. You can run it on Joyent's no.de hosting or EC2 (or the many other NodeJS hosting services springing up).
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by wioota 20y ago
This was a great read and the patterns of growth and strategies they used hold true even for much less extreme scaling.