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It'll start small, then get feedback, iterate, and improve.
My pledge is: Not only will you be better able to help your teams manage tech debt, but you will find the experience a joyful one, despite the slog.
#technicaldebt #technicalleverage #cohort #courses
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Initially I didn't plan to charge, but some friends who have done similar things suggested that engagement benefits from having some skin in the game. The initial beta version of the course will cost somewhere around $750, representing a significant discount over the final price.
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*What My Approach Will Be*
- Creating thoughtful & actionable curriculum & content;
- Adapting the material to the cohort's needs
- Providing structure and value to the group discussions; and
- Most of all, ensuring your successful application of the Playbook to your world
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*Who Am I*
- Restructuring CTO tackling tech debt for years
- someone who learned from painful experience, consistent experimentation, collaboration of like-minded teammates, and much patience
- Helped consolidate debt and build platforms at and
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*What's in the course?*
- live lectures
- community discussions
- artifacts and templates applicable to your specific technical debt situation.
- In other words: a Technical Debt Playbook.
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*Who's the tech debt course for?*
- IC engineers & product folks holding things together
- Engineering Managers & Product Managers trying to minimize impact on teams & products
- product & engineering leaders trying to find a way out
- senior execs trying to make sense of it
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Technical Debt and I are old frenemies; I get lots of questions about it. Turns out that too many people get put in the position of trying to deal with it without a well-articulated playbook.
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Ahoy! ⚓️ I'm going to experiment with a cohort-based course on finding pathways from #technicaldebt and creating technical leverage. If you're interested in being a beta tester, visit: radixtypeform.typeform.com/to/YFnuz2wD
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The ABCs of Inclusive Decision-Making. Brief, simple and pragmatic. link.medium.com/f6rn3bHI8db #inclusion #decisionmaking #leadership
Advising a company in discovery mode that's evaluating the development of a niche job board site. If you've invested in a company like this, or have experience building a job board, would love to hear from you. #jobboards
Anyone managing a sizable fleet (say 200+) Macs in an enterprise setting that's *not* a salesperson or sales engineer, DM me? Got a question for you.
Two weeks ago today I joined Reigning Champs as its first CTO. And I could not be happier.
It's a strange thing joining an organization in the middle of our current societal state of play. Yet the team at Reigning Champs has made me feel so welcome and a…
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As a Chicago mentor, I’m privileged to welcome the class of 2020. Sincere congratulations to the founders who have worked as hard as they did to be chosen for #TSChicago!
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Extremely well-written post on dependencies. Love that it sets out the different positions and assesses their merits, instead of the standard clickbait position-staking. A breath of fresh air. twitter.com/sunshowers6/st
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Few things to take the energy out of the Zoom like having to say for the twelve-thousandth time "You're on mute." My proposal is this hand-gesture.
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Wonder how many companies are not organized this way. I can think of several that I know of.... #personalization #data
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My extraordinary talented partner, Amy Schiffman, speaks about #entrepreneurship, women-owned businesses and developing not-for-profit organizations. #womenownedbusiness #womenleaders #nonprofitmanagement #nonprofitdevelopment lnkd.in/esTUi7w lnkd.in/ebE-BaV