Archive - The Pragmatic CTO

Deceptive Engineering

Signs Your Software Engineering Team is Lying to You and How to Mitigate It

Jun 20 •

May 2025

Edicts - The Unstoppable Force

Authoritarian vs Nuanced Edicts

May 20 •

November 2024

Whence Innovation?

How IT Process is Crushing Software Engineering Progress

Nov 14, 2024 •

October 2024

The Star System

Staffing a Software Engineering Team

Oct 29, 2024 •

Letting People Go Home

Culture is the Game

Oct 29, 2024 •

It might not be everything you want to know!

Oct 29, 2024 •

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