Fearless Organizations on Dr. Raphael A. Bauer, MBA | Fractional & Interim CTO | PE/VC Tech Strategy & Due Diligence | Berlin | London | Austin, Texas

Background Our challenge was to insert data into a sqlite database as quickly as possible.

Intro Being an exceptional leader takes behaviors that everyone can observe.

Jefferson What?

TL;DR The product manager has to work on two areas: Discovery and delivery.

TL;DR Meetings without clear structure and action items are a waste of time Use a checklist to remind everyone to do effective meetings Intro You likely all know this kind of meetings.

TL;DR Go without a separate QA team by default Hire engineers that write tests on the proper level and own the quality aspect QA sometimes make sense when applied carefully as detailed below Intro I just read a very nice post by Regina Gerbeaux and Case S…

Peter Drucker and one question Peter Drucker is likely the founder of the science of management and leadership.

A reorganization that went well I recently completed a reorg of an IT department for a client.

Agile makes the organization slower.

Intro Go and Rust are some relatively new languages not that widely used languages that compile down to native code for a platform.

Caveat: By “leader” I equally mean leadership on CTO level, but also experienced engineers on an individual contributor level.

Intro Accelerate became a classic book describing what makes a high performing IT department.

Intro As part of my management assignments I am often tasked with strategy-related topics.

Intro Recently I had a very interesting discussion with a colleague about why to test software at all.