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Battling Code Entropy with Strategic Development Principles

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Oct 30, 2023

Battling Code Entropy with Strategic Development Principles

Oct 30, 2023

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The Five Sources of Organizational Decision Drag

Having a Great Strategy is Useless if Decision Making is a Tar Pit

Nov 15, 2021

The Five Sources of Organizational Decision Drag

Nov 15, 2021

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Xpanse Inc

What Startup Leaders Can Learn About Cultural Strategy from a Polarized Political Environment

Productive Conflict Improves Team Potential, But Getting There Can Be Tricky

Nov 11, 2021

What Startup Leaders Can Learn About Cultural Strategy from a Polarized Political Environment

Nov 11, 2021

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Xpanse Inc

Why a Non-Degreed, Job-Hopping, Code Academy Grad May Be Your Best Hire Yet

Evolve your focus on skills potential in recruiting and change the odds against Big Tech in the war for talent

Aug 11, 2021

Why a Non-Degreed, Job-Hopping, Code Academy Grad May Be Your Best Hire Yet

Aug 11, 2021

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Xpanse Inc

Concepts and Sample Frameworks for Software Forecasting

Part 2 of Democratizing Operational Excellence: Developing Competitive Advantage in Software Forecasting

Jul 4, 2021

Concepts and Sample Frameworks for Software Forecasting

Jul 4, 2021

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Democratizing Operational Excellence: Developing Competitive Advantage in Software Forecasting

Leveraging data-driven frameworks and diversity of opinion to plan and deliver more reliably

Jul 2, 2021

Democratizing Operational Excellence: Developing Competitive Advantage in Software Forecasting

Jul 2, 2021

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Xpanse Inc

What Baseball and Search Algorithms Can Teach Us About Product Research at Startups

“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”

May 25, 2021

Graig Nettles and his stats

May 25, 2021

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Xpanse Inc

The Downside of a Wrong Turn

Strategic Risk Management at Startups

May 11, 2021

Wouldn’t it be nifty to have a risk sign for your startup leadership team?

May 11, 2021

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Xpanse Inc

Learning Fast and Slow

What a Zero-to-One Startup can Learn from Tesla’s Model 3 Production Hell

Apr 29, 2021

Learning Fast and Slow

Apr 29, 2021

Becoming a Multisided Platform

Part Two: Should Your Platform Become an MSP?

Apr 2, 2017

Becoming a Multisided Platform

Apr 2, 2017

Your Online Reputation and Access to Opportunity

Social Capital and Productive Social Networks

Mar 31, 2017

Mar 31, 2017

Social Content Collaboration Platforms

The Multisided Platform Meets the Perpetual Motion Machine

Mar 31, 2017

Social Content Collaboration Platforms

Mar 31, 2017

Carve Your Roadmap: 10 Steps to Product Management Nirvana

Get Smart, Use Frameworks, Get Buy-In, and Build Partnerships

Mar 29, 2017

Carve Your Roadmap: 10 Steps to Product Management Nirvana

Mar 29, 2017

Let Your Users Flow

Knowing How to Engage Your Users is Directly Related to Value Creation on Your Software Platform

Mar 20, 2017

Let Your Users Flow

Mar 20, 2017

Seven Key Ingredients for a Multisided Platform

Attracting, Accelerating, and Igniting Your Platform

Mar 20, 2017

Seven Key Ingredients for a Multisided Platform

Mar 20, 2017

Innovation vs. Adoption in Product Development

Five Strategic Considerations on When, Why, and Potentially Even Why Not to Innovate

Dec 21, 2016

Innovation vs. Adoption in Product Development

Dec 21, 2016

Put Your Hands on the Clay

The Best Expression of Team Greatness is Via Shaping Their World

Nov 23, 2016

Put Your Hands on the Clay

Nov 23, 2016

The Smartest Person in the Room Can Make Your Team Stupid

Six Tips For Making Dev Teams Happier, Smarter, and More Productive

Nov 23, 2016

The Smartest Person in the Room Can Make Your Team Stupid

Nov 23, 2016

How I Found Insight and Intuition Inside a Tangle of Data Complexity

Cognitive Shortcutting in Software Product Research

Nov 23, 2016

How I Found Insight and Intuition Inside a Tangle of Data Complexity

Nov 23, 2016

Fear of Falling and the Bane of High Expectations

The Mind Game of Winning, Staying Ahead, and Risk-Taking

Nov 23, 2016

Fear of Falling and the Bane of High Expectations

Nov 23, 2016

Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas

Engineering and Consumer Platform Leader @Upside; Product design, technology platform strategy, and ground fighting geek in Seattle

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