The archives

• Culture as a Replacement for Systems
• The Capability Development vs. Execution Paradox
• No Pattern Matching Without Experience
• Eliminating Key Person Risk in Your Small Business
• The Culture of Calm
• There's No Substitute for Experience
• Hiring Our First Manager
• Training When You Should Be Teaching Instead
• Cracking the Agency Business Model So You Can Sleep at Night
• Your Digital Agency Sucks at Support
• Why Some Businesses Make an Easy Profit
• Increasing Average Revenue Per Customer in a Professional Services Business
• Transforming Your Lifestyle Business into a Company
• Forging Business Partnerships That Last
• Making Personal Development Plans Work in SMBs
• The Worst of Two Worlds: The Maker Manager
• The Universal Traits of Senior Team Members
• Building a Recurring Revenue Product Portfolio for a Scalable Business
• Dimensions of a Scalable Business Model
• Recurring Revenue as the Lifeblood of your Professional Service Business
• Why Small Businesses Suck at Hiring
• Why Work Grinds to a Halt When You Get Busy
• So what is User-Centered Technology anyway?
• Working Asynchronously in a World of Instant Gratification
• Building a team: Taking inventory
• Using Hill Chart terminology to express uncertainty
• Let Them Stumble, but Never Let Them Fall
• Is it time for your company to go Serverless?
• This is why we still build Bad Software
• Extracting your first microservice
• Why you should be building software based on conventions
• Six lessons learned from "Chef’s Table"
• The Fear of Missing Out
• Why we did not go all-in on micro-services
• Getting to the real problem
• Building a product for non-technical founders
• Be a well-rounded software engineer
• Tips for attending professional events
• This isn't rocket science
• Another year without taking incoming calls
• Why Square will be huge
• The rise and fall of web APIs
• Co-founders: Being remote
• Keeping complexity down
• Why you should get a degree in computer science
• Adaptive Interfaces: an introduction
• Evolving metadata layers for eBooks
• Enabling design through technology
• The beauty of an information system
• Disconnecting your phone