Communcation… Ownership – How it can go wrong – Part 2 7 Jun 20235 Jul 2023 This is a five-part set of blog posts on Ownership. The first you can find here. No approach is perfect, most things can be done wrong with unintentional consequences. I…
Change Management… Ownership in Small and Medium Technology Companies – Part 1 10 May 20238 Aug 2023 This post is part of a series on Scaling Small and Medium Technology companies. I will start with a hypothesis for each of the topics I explore in this series.…
Leadership… Scaling for Small and Medium Technology Companies 27 Apr 202314 Jun 2023 I've noticed many articles, books, and blog posts for Technology Leadership / Management are written by people who now or recently worked in Big Tech (Maybe they have more time…
Human… We are humans not resources 2 Nov 202120 Jun 2023 I strive to never refer to another Human as a resource. I see this as diminishing another human. It encourages the use of humans as cogs in a factory, merely…
Career Management Becoming a CTO 26 Feb 202122 Jun 2023 What did it take? Growth through others Hard work and long hours Aggressive Learning Thinking through many scenarios Strategy and policies Make Decisions Constantly evolving the way I communicate Leadership…
Leadership… A year at SpotHero leading Engineering PT 5 – COVID-19 27 May 202027 May 2020 Now Covid-19 -> Not Scaling March 2020 -> Throughout the whole US Parking sector, revenue dropped by 90% due to COVID-19 (Stay at Home Orders/WFH). As an Executive, we wrote…
Leadership… Leading Engineering @ Spothero – product 27 May 202011 Jan 2023 Product May 2019 We are a two sided marketplace - Consumers on one side (Parkers) and Operators (Owners/management of Parking facilities) on the other We were not Product led as…
Leadership… leading Engineering@ SpotHero – Technology 27 May 202011 Jan 2023 Technology May 2019 The SpotHero monolith is Python/Django The Parking Panda monolith is c#/.net (SpotHero acquired Parking Panda in Spring 2017) We were extracting core functionality from our monolith to…
Leadership… leading Engineering@ SpotHero- People 27 May 202011 Jan 2023 People- May 2019 The Product and Engineering was about 50 people Offices in Chicago HQ, Baltimore and a couple remote WFH Most Engineering Managers had over 10-14 engineers to serve…
Leadership… leading Engineering@ SpotHero 27 May 202011 Jan 2023 I will talk about the year in five parts/posts: Scaling -> Governance, People, Technology Product Not Scaling -> COVID 19 May 2019 - The company had been without a VP…
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