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How to Get Your Tech Team Excited About Business Goals
Want your engineers to care about business outcomes, not just code? Here's how non-technical CEOs and founders can get their tech teams engaged with company goals and product impact.

Ceri Shaw
May 284 min read
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Weekly rhythms for better communication between tech and leadership
Frustrated by unclear progress from your tech team? Here’s how a few lightweight weekly rhythms can improve communication and visibility...

Ceri Shaw
May 224 min read
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Tips for Non-Tech Founders Leading Tech Startups - Part 2
How will we know if this feature is successful? In the first part of this series on tips for non-tech founders of tech startups, we...

Ceri Shaw
May 63 min read
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What Problem are We Solving for the User?
Tips for Non-Tech Founders Leading Tech Startups - Part 1 You don’t have to be able to code to lead a tech-focused startup. Leading...

Ceri Shaw
Apr 283 min read
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Communicating with Technical Teams
Building High-Performance teams: Communicating inwards. Communicating well with your technical team is essential to creating...

Ceri Shaw
Mar 184 min read
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Product-Engineering Alignment
Improving product-engineering alignment - How do you know when you've got it right? One of the areas I love to talk to clients about is...

Ceri Shaw
Mar 113 min read
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Evaluating Technical Risk on Software Projects
What is technical risk, and why is it important? Technical risk is the possibility that an implementation may fail to meet expectations...

Ceri Shaw
Mar 24 min read
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Slow progress on feature development?
What do you do if it feels like your tech team is slow to deliver? Diagnosing what's wrong in situations like this can be challenging for...

Ceri Shaw
Feb 112 min read
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Is my Idea Technically Feasible?
This is one of the most common questions I handle in my mentoring sessions with early-stage start-up founders (and potential founders)....

Ceri Shaw
Jan 142 min read
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My Mentoring services
In my post last week, I mentioned I offered mentoring for founders, and today, I’d like to talk a little bit about the sorts of things I...

Ceri Shaw
Jan 132 min read
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Mentoring vs Coaching
As we enter the new year and people make their resolutions, one of the things that might be on your mind is getting a mentor or coach....

Ceri Shaw
Jan 82 min read
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Feature Factory
Product-Engineering alignment is important for a successful organisation. It's what ensures you're building the right thing, in the right...

Ceri Shaw
Jan 31, 20245 min read
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Product Specs That Work
Past Mistakes One of the early mistakes I made when I started to take on product work was to write really detailed specs, trying to make...

Ceri Shaw
Oct 24, 20233 min read
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The Secret Sauce for Success with your Bootcamp Hire
Taking on a bootcamp grad can be a very rewarding experience as I mentioned in my previous post, but it does take a little bit of effort...

Ceri Shaw
Oct 18, 20233 min read
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Why Start-ups Should Consider hiring Bootcamp Grads
Having worked at CodeClan and employed many bootcamp grads in previous roles, it is always frustrating to hear companies overestimate the...

Ceri Shaw
Oct 16, 20233 min read
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Help! I'm a Product Owner
(And I don't know what I'm doing !?) It's not uncommon in organisations undergoing IT transformations for Product Owners to be appointed...

Ceri Shaw
Oct 13, 20235 min read
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