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Steve Mushero's avatar

This is really an excellent famework - love the L/M/H confidence (which we use in finance all the time), and the stages/phases, of course.

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Etienne de Bruin's avatar

Yes Steve I love borrowing from other disciplines to see how we can make the CTO role simpler.

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Michael “Misha” Shirman's avatar

Solid post Etienne! I'm now at a company that provides software products in the industry that's highly regulated (life science companies). Our customers take quarterly releases and each release has to run through a rigorous validation testing (on both our end and the customer end). We had to design a process that lowers uncertainty through front-loaded solutioning process and technical design, breaking the value delivery to the smallest possible slices, and via rolling commitments.

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Etienne de Bruin's avatar

Breaking it down to the smallest possible units is always a great start.

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Kevin Goldsmith's avatar

Great article and solid advice.

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Etienne de Bruin's avatar

Huge coming from you my friend. Thank you.

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