Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans
Somewhere, right now, a technology executive tells their directors: “we need a way to measure the productivity of our engineering teams.” A working group assembles to explore potential solutions, and…
Know Your Prospect (KYP): What’s in Their Portfolio and Why?
I interviewed 50 amazing people — 25 women and 25 men — from different professions and industries for my 14th annual research paper released on International Women’s Day, 8 March…
Revolution and Risk: How to Pilot the AI Revolution
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, with its expansion into neural networks and other novel fields, marks a dramatic shift away from traditional innovation models. And like all revolutions, it comes…
What if we rotate pairs every day?
The majority of developers work solo. Tasks are commonly assigned to single individuals in a practice that is called “solo coding”. Developers that practice solo coding are often isolated in…
Americans spend 18 years of their adult lives online, according to a new report
You’re reading this on a screen, but you may want to take a break after finishing the article to avoid spending years of your life eyeballing pixels. That’s not hyperbole.…
Event Interception
By the time changes have made their way to the legacy database, then you could argue that it is too late for event interception. That said, "Pre-commit" triggers can be…
Steve Blank Is a $100 Million Enough?
This article first appeared in Inc. Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I…
Climate Change Calculus: HNWIs and Sustainable Impact Investing
Climate change is inescapable even for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). Its effects are forcing both short- and long-term decisions on HNWIs and their family offices. In the short term, the phenomenon…
Times Change: The Era of the Private Equity Denominator Effect
After private equity’s extraordinary performance in 2021, private market valuations decoupled from those of both public equities and bonds in 2022. This led many institutional investors to end up over-allocated…
Venture Capital: Lessons from the Dot-Com Days
The NASDAQ 100 index hit rock bottom during intra-day trading on 10 October 2002, down 77% from its all-time high on 10 March 2000. An estimated 100 million individual investors…
