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Technology decisions for founders and boards
Written for the decisions that are expensive to unwind: what to build, who to trust with it, what it should cost, and what the board needs to see. Start with the current guides below. The rest of the archive, 74 pieces written over the years, is kept for reference rather than promoted.
Start here: the current guides
Six reference pieces kept up to date, rather than left as they were written. If you are weighing up a model or a board role, start with these.
By subject
A shorter way into the archive: the pieces worth reading first in each area of the work.
Board technology assurance
Getting a straight, testable account of technology delivery when you do not run the function.
- The Difference Between Boards & IT Teams and How You Can Get the Most From Each Other
- Measuring What Matters: Key Metrics for Assessing the Impact of Technology on Business Success
- What strategies could have prevented the UK’s Post Office scandal?
- The power of alignment: how technology goals can drive business success
Technology NED and governance
Oversight, regulation and the policies a board is expected to have sight of.
- How good governance is crucial to the success of any tech project
- Policies and processes all tech startups need to avoid costly mistakes
- A guide to understanding global AI regulations for tech startups and SMEs
- Data privacy challenges in the era of assistive AI and GDPR and how to overcome them
- Why cybersecurity must be a tech startup’s top priority
Supporting CTOs and technology leaders
The parts of the job that are not engineering: people, prioritisation and being understood upstairs.
- How people-first CTOs define success beyond metrics
- Talent retention and motivation challenges in tech startups and what you can do about them.
- Prioritising for Success: A Guide to Strategic Technology Investment and Resource Allocation
- How can user stories in development stop tech projects from getting delayed?
- Building a Digital Culture: Our Strategies for Creating a Tech-Savvy Workforce
Fractional leadership
When part-time senior technical leadership is the right answer, and what it costs.
Investment and technical diligence
What to open first when the technology is the asset, and where the cost usually hides.
Delivery, cost and supplier risk
Why work slows down, where budget leaks and what goes wrong with outsourced teams.
- Why it’s taking your development team so long to do something so simple
- One of the Greatest Risks to a Development Project: Setting it Up Correctly
- 6 Most Common Challenges Start-ups Face Working With Outsourced Teams And Their Solutions
- Are you focusing on growth and Innovation or just cost cutting?
- Has your SaaS project lost its way?
The full archive
Nothing has been deleted. Every one of the 74 articles published since 2021 is still there, listed by year. Older pieces are kept as written and reflect the market at the time.
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