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Battling Code Entropy with Strategic Development Principles

Summary

5 min readOct 30, 2023

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Battling Code Entropy with Strategic Development Principles

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Dave Thomas
in
Xpanse Inc

The Five Sources of Organizational Decision Drag

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

4 min readNov 15, 2021

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The Five Sources of Organizational Decision Drag

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Dave Thomas
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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

6 min readNov 11, 2021

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

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Dave Thomas
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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

13 min readAug 11, 2021

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

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Dave Thomas
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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

5 min readJul 4, 2021

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Concepts and Sample Frameworks for Software Forecasting

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Xpanse Inc

Democratizing Operational Excellence: Developing Competitive Advantage in Software Forecasting

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

8 min readJul 2, 2021

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Democratizing Operational Excellence: Developing Competitive Advantage in Software Forecasting

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Dave Thomas
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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.”

7 min readMay 25, 2021

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Graig Nettles and his stats

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Dave Thomas
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Xpanse Inc

The Downside of a Wrong Turn

Strategic Risk Management at Startups

5 min readMay 11, 2021

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

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Dave Thomas
in
Xpanse Inc

Learning Fast and Slow

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

4 min readApr 29, 2021

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Learning Fast and Slow

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Dave Thomas

Becoming a Multisided Platform

Part Two: Should Your Platform Become an MSP?

3 min readApr 2, 2017

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Becoming a Multisided Platform

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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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