Learning to make long-term decisions is perhaps the hardest part of the tech scale-up journey.…
The start-up Valley of Death: what it is and how to power through it
It’s a well-known fact that most start-ups fail. What’s less well-known is that most tech…
The technical debt quadrant
Is technical debt ALWAYS bad? It’s a question we’ve touched on a lot in earlier …
Five ways DevOps helps with technical debt
Many organisations uncover mountains of technical debt during their migration to the cloud. But what…
Challenges you’ll face as a scale-up CTO, and how to overcome them
Crossing the chasm from start-up to scale-up is exhilarating. But don’t expect it to be…
3 reasons to embrace technical debt as you get set for the new normal
In The Lean Start-up, Eric Ries defines a start-up as ‘a human institution designed…
Insurance and the scourge of technical debt
Did you see the article in The Economist about the future of insurance (Run …
Is technical debt strangling your scale-up? Here’s how to loosen its grip.
Crossing the threshold from start-up to scale-up is cause for celebration. But it also marks…
Slow down before you go faster
Gunning for growth? You’ll have to put the brakes on some time. “Behind our booming…
#DevOps and automating the repayment of technical debt
One of the common things we find in Enterprise organisations looking to move to a…