- Manual Testing Is Too Slow. Scripted Testing Is Too Fragile. Here’s What’s Next.There’s a quiet war happening in QA right now. On one side: Manual testing.✅ Flexible✅ Human judgment🚫 Slow🚫 Expensive🚫 Doesn’t scale
- Why Visibility Breaks Down as Engineering Teams ScaleYou used to know everything. Every pull request. Every commit. Every roadmap decision. When the team was five people, you didn’t need a dashboard. You…
- How to De-Risk Early-Stage StartupsA lot of startup founders think capital is the biggest risk. But if you’ve been in this game long enough, you know:Money isn’t the bottleneck.Capability…
- The Five Modes of a Modern CTO (And Why Most Only Master One)Nobody tells you this when you take the CTO role: You're not just responsible for the tech. You're responsible for five jobs at once—each with its own…
- You Don’t Need a PM to Own the ProductYou’re growing fast.The backlog’s overflowing.You need help making sense of it all. So you hire a product manager.
- How to Scale Yourself as a Builder-Turned-LeaderIn most startups, the first developer becomes the de facto CTO. One day, you’re writing code. The next, you’re in investor meetings, managing people,…
- You’re Hitting Every Metric. And Yet...You’re standing in the middle of the war room. The whiteboard’s packed with diagrams. JIRA’s lit up like a Christmas tree. Slack’s pinging nonstop with…
- How to Build Empathy on Teams That Never Meet the UserThere’s a moment in this conversation with Anton Zaides I keep thinking about. He’s telling me about flying drones.
- Your Team Might Be Doing All the Right Things for the Wrong ReasonsEarly in my career, I thought if a team hit their deadlines, showed up to standups, and shipped on time, everything was good.
- "I Could Never Speak at Conferences" and Other Things Tech Experts Tell ThemselvesWhen I saw Cory House speak at my first tech conference, I immediately thought, "I could never do that." He seemed so natural on stage, sharing deep…
- You’re Not the Bottleneck AnymoreIt used to be that being an engineering leader meant being the team’s unblocker. Your calendar was a war zone of standups, backlog grooming, roadmap…
- The Tech Leader's Guide to Managing Up, Down, and AcrossHow do you get multiple stakeholders to agree on anything in a business? It's one of the most challenging problems technical leaders face today. When…
- What “Done” Should Actually Mean on Product Engineering TeamsA few years ago, I was running a fast-growing SaaS company when my CEO dropped a bombshell on me: “Matt, I need you to stop shipping new features.”
- When to Kill Your "Working" Product and Start OverThere's a painful truth that most tech founders don't want to hear: sometimes a product that's "working" still needs to die.
- When to Kill Your "Working" Product and Start OverThere's a painful truth that most tech founders don't want to hear: sometimes a product that's "working" still needs to die.
- Engineering Managers Hold the Key to Effective Team CollaborationSome people love daily standup meetings. Others hate them with a passion. I love them. And if you don't, it might be because you're managing them wrong —…
- Engineering Managers Hold the Key to Effective Team CollaborationSome people love daily standup meetings. Others hate them with a passion. I love them. And if you don't, it might be because you're managing them wrong —…
- Why Technical Founders Fail at SalesThe late-night text message lit up my phone: "I just can't do this sales thing. I'm an engineer, not a salesperson."
- Why Technical Founders Fail at SalesThe late-night text message lit up my phone: "I just can't do this sales thing. I'm an engineer, not a salesperson."
- Engineering Teams Need Craftsmen, Not Just Artists or ScientistsWhen I'm hiring developers at Full Scale or building teams for my own ventures, I always face the same question: what kind of people truly build…
