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Driving Revenue with Strategic Tech Debt Management

If managed well, fixing tech debt can do more than just reduce costs

Oct 26 • 

Kevin Borders

June 2025

The Danger of Doing What You Love

Why you should think twice about this age-old advice

Jun 24 • 

Kevin Borders

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April 2025

Discipline Is the Foundation of Innovation

Why achieving big things requires executing everything else by the book

Apr 29 • 

Kevin Borders

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March 2025

Reducing Cycle Times With Design As Code

How to automate visual asset production

Mar 3 • 

Kevin Borders

1

January 2025

You Need Data to Write a Fair Engineering Performance Review

How to reduce engineering performance review bias with data

Jan 16 • 

Kevin Borders

11

December 2024

Startup CEO’s Productivity Hack: Extreme Single-Tasking

How to take context-switching avoidance to the next level

Dec 2, 2024 • 

Kevin Borders

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November 2024

To Sprint, or Not To Sprint

How to decide whether and which sprint processes are right for you

Nov 8, 2024 • 

Kevin Borders

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Yes, You Can Measure Technical Debt

How to calculate costs and build the business case for fixing technical debt

Nov 1, 2024 • 

Kevin Borders

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October 2024

Hire the Most Expensive Engineers You Can Find

Why those who cost the most are the best bargain, and how to recruit them

Oct 4, 2024 • 

Kevin Borders

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September 2024

Don’t Fall for the Return-to-Office Hype

Others are doing it, but that doesn’t mean you should too

Sep 30, 2024 • 

Kevin Borders

3

What Every CEO Should Know About Software Planning

How business leaders can use planning processes and metrics to prevent project failures

Sep 23, 2024 • 

Kevin Borders

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Want To Ship Features Faster? Fix All Your Bugs

How fixing all bugs with an SLA can increase feature velocity

Sep 12, 2024 • 

Kevin Borders

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