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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

This was probably best illustrated in what’s been called the single most famous edit in the history of cinema, in 2001: A Space Odyssey. No, I think the real reason is evident in this quote: OH (a former CTO of Autodesk): “I can walk through most buildings and tell you which version of AutoCad was used to design it. “.

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Blog/Website Relaunch: Under the Hood of craftycto.com

Crafty CTO

Yes, I needed to replatform my blog, but I also needed a web presence for my new fractional CTOing entity. In the end, I found a name that I think works well for both (ask me again in 5 years): Crafty CTO / craftycto.com for the entity, with the blog living at CraftyCTO.com/blog. Ghost and Squarespace are … CMSs.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

Where agile began I was managing software development projects at Viant in February 2001 when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published. My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. Not all agile is bad agile.

Agile 52
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Leading A High-Growth Company | David Cancel, Drift | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

No one really cared about the Internet right from a commercial standpoint, and so I have a lot of good stories now that are funny but they weren’t funny at the time; including you know getting kicked out of many company when we were trying to sell can compete services into its software into it.