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8 articles tagged “Engineering Leadership”.
Dan Lorenc of Chainguard says we're staring at the largest technology modernization effort ever, and nobody realizes how big or how fast it's going to be. I think he's right, and most of the organizations we work with aren't ready for it.
How PE operating partners should think about technology as a value-creation lever. What to read in diligence, what to do in the first 100 days, what to leave alone during hold, and what to fix before exit.
Most founders agonise over which option is 'right' for their MVP. They're usually not the same option, the trade-offs are concrete, and the worst case is the hybrid that tries to be all three.
Platforms rarely flounder because the engineering was bad. They flounder because nobody agreed what was being built. Scope, requirements, and real customer collaboration decide the outcome long before code does.
Most people googling 'fractional Director of Engineering' aren't sure what they're hiring. Here's the honest read on the work, the cadence, and the four shapes of engagement, written by someone who's spent more than a decade doing it.
Most failed cloud migrations are blamed on the cloud bill, the vendor, or the consultancy. The real cause is almost always the same thing, and it's not technical.
Every week there's a new headline about AI replacing software engineers. The data tells a different story, and the real gap it's exposing isn't in code production, it's in engineering leadership.
When IT becomes a bottleneck and shadow solutions proliferate, structural reorganization won't fix misalignment. The Trio model offers a practical collaboration pattern for small teams navigating high-pressure environments.
