strategy

When to Say No: The CTO's Most Valuable Word

Your backlog has 200 items. Your team has capacity for 20. Research suggests nearly two-thirds of what you ship will rarely be used. The CTO's job isn't to build faster — it's to filter harder.

Bridging Strategy and Execution in the Age of AI Agents

AI changed what's fast. Nobody changed what's slow. Teams are merging twice as many pull requests while review times double and bug rates climb. The bottleneck moved — and most organisations are only now starting to notice.

Context Engineering: The Skill That Replaced Prompt Engineering

Everyone's talking about context engineering as if it's a prompting technique. It's not. It's the skill that determines whether your AI investment produces strategy or noise — and the part that matters most has nothing to do with code.

The First 90 Days as a Fractional CTO

The 90-day plan looks clean on paper. Discovery, diagnosis, roadmap. In practice, you're three weeks in and the client is asking you to ship a feature. Here's what actually happens — and the line you need to hold.