Hi, I’m Taj Pelc. I write about technical leadership, business mindset and enterpreneurship. Daily advice on building fantastic tech teams that deliver great products. I'll see you inside.
Going straight for the gold
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Let's say you have a concept for a new product you want to validate. Can you do it without code? Perfect. No? Take as much off the shelf as you possibly can and custom-build just the thing you want to test. Don't start with the software architecture, microservices, and a registration and login system only to find out that after two months of work, you've built just the skeleton. Remember, the goal is to get to good faster. How much are you going to learn by building your sixth version of a login system? Not all that much; get insights from customers instead. I know because I'm a bit of an expert in building skeletons that have a custom-built login system, sometimes with certificates. 😅 P.S. I have a coaching spot open. If you're on the fence, reserve a spot with a free 30-minute intro call and see how I can help: https://calendly.com/taj-pelc/30m-1o1 Yours, Taj |
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Hi, I’m Taj Pelc. I write about technical leadership, business mindset and enterpreneurship. Daily advice on building fantastic tech teams that deliver great products. I'll see you inside.
I was making a sandwich analogy. The butter makes things run smoothly. The other components are good tech/business alignment, an agile dev process, testing, and automated deployments. To succeed, you can't get just some parts right; you need to get all the parts right. However, one of the most underrated aspects is the developer experience. I'm constantly surprised by how much pain people suffer through just because it's always been this way. Here's what you can do today ... Make it run in a...
Yesterday, I attended the Czech Executive meetup in Brno, which was held in a WWII-era bunker. As the communists had a top-secret base there, I thought creating a little old-school digital business card to share at the networking event might be fun. I generated the code with Claude, uploaded it to GitHub pages, and programmed an NFC tag with the URL so that you can just tap it with your phone. A hacking game in the middle "protects" the links to my website. Eat the red packet, and you're...
Find out how much <the thing you want to do> is worth. This can help in two ways. If it’s internal it helps you to prioritize and focus on doing the most impactful things. If it’s for a client it helps you set a price as a fraction of that value. That’s not always easy, but it’s worth it. Problem is people don’t even try. Here’s what you can do. Break it down into spefic measurable outcomes like increased sales, time saved or reduced costs. Then assign a reasonable estimate to each. Like 10%...