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In more than 10 years helping companies launch, I've seen brilliant products fail not because the tech wasn't good enough, but because teams overlooked the unglamorous essentials and seemingly small details that actually make launches work.
When systems fail, panic is the enemy of resolution. A structured approach to incident response can mean the difference between a 10-minute fix and a 3-hour nightmare. Here's the framework that turns chaos into methodical problem-solving.Rich text editors are all the rage with millenial founders but I've realised Markdown is all we need.
General purpose AI tools based on LLMs (Large Language Models) can turbo-charge your existing business practices, including documentation, but they're not ready to replace them. In fact, good documentation has become more critical than ever - because AI amplifies bad as muchh the good, and pften converges towards mediorcity.
Too much WIP - Work In Progress - hurts output, performance and quality. Dive deeper into what is *too much*, what research says, and how to minimise WIP in your product engineering teams.
Alla Babkina and Andrey Adamovich discuss the changes AI agents bring to team topologies, their role in teams, and the gap between industry hype and the current maturity of LLMs.
Deciding whether to build or buy has never been easy. Cloud and AI developments have changed the landscape but some patterns remain unchanged. Read our analysis of the current climate.
Many founders think speaking of their passion is enough. It's not. The founders who succeed are power users of their own product. They spot problems faster, prioritise better, and lead by example because they live the customer experience daily.
We've helped teams dramatically improve user experience by doing what makes engineers nervous - denormalising and duplicating data. Designing data storage around query patterns instead of theoretical best practices feels wrong to many developers, but users notice the difference immediately.