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'Move Fast and Break Things' Will Break Your Business: Why Stability is the New Innovation

The same philosophy that enables startup agility becomes organizational poison at scale. Smart CTPOs know when to shift from breaking things to building unbreakable things.

July 15, 2025 Admiral CTPO Operational Excellence
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June 30, 2025 Team Building

Remote-First Engineering: How CTPOs Build High-Performance Distributed Teams

The best remote engineering teams don't just replicate office culture online–they reimagine how high-performance technical organizations operate in a distributed world.

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June 15, 2025 Platform Strategy

Platform Thinking: The CTPO's Secret Weapon for Competitive Advantage

The companies dominating their markets share a hidden architecture: they've transformed products into platforms that create value beyond their original purpose.

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May 31, 2025 Engineering Leadership

Your Best Engineers Should Spend Less Time Coding: The Unpopular Truth About Scaling Technical Leverage

The most dangerous assumption in technology organizations is that great engineers create value by writing more code. The best engineers multiply everyone else's effectiveness.

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May 16, 2025 Industry Trends

The Rise of the CTPO: Bridging Product and Technology

How the evolving landscape of tech companies is leading to the emergence of the Chief Technology and Product Officer role.

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May 1, 2025 Process Innovation

The 'Agile' Charade: Are Your Sprints Just Waterfall in Disguise?

The most dangerous enemy of genuine agility isn't resistance to change – it's the comfortable theater of agile ceremonies that mask unchanged waterfall thinking.

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April 16, 2025 AI Strategy

The AI-Powered Product Flywheel: A CTPO's Blueprint for Sustainable Innovation

The difference between AI success and AI theater isn't in the algorithms – it's in the flywheel that turns machine learning insights into accelerating business value.

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April 1, 2025 Strategic Planning

Beyond the Backlog: Elevating Technical Debt from Chore to Strategic Imperative

Technical debt isn't a side effect of building software – it's a strategic instrument that, when wielded properly, accelerates rather than impedes progress.

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March 17, 2025 Organizational Strategy

The Symbiotic CTPO: Architecting an Indivisible Product & Tech Org

The most successful tech organizations aren't those that manage the tension between product and engineering – they're the ones that eliminate it entirely.

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