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How do you balance generational expectations through interventions in corporate culture?

Through communication and listening. Generational expectations matter because each generation has different experiences, frustrations, challenges, and hopes. These are also shaped by technological advances and the societal values inherent to that generation. The first thing is to make the different generations aware of these differences, both the older generations, who have historically held a higher […]

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What are some processes that you can put in place to extract knowledge from team 1 to enable team 2 to be autonomous and not blocked by the availability and priorities of team 1?

This is a very common use case (and pain) in Agile organizations. It occurs when you scale all your teams at the same time, but you don’t invest enough in analyzing how the flows of work evolve with respect to the growth of your products and services. But worry not, this is just a matter […]

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How do you manage your time to learn the latest technologies?

I share my good practices with you here. Basically, it is about setting aside a little time (15 minutes), every day of the week, whenever you like, to at least start reading, listening to, or watching something about a recent technology. If the subject and content interest you, you will naturally spend more than 15 […]

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What is the main difference between a software architect versus a tech lead?

The differences are the following: The purpose of a Software Architect is to provide a solution to a set of needs in terms of products and services or a problem, which includes technical and functional research, impact analysis, system design, IT designs, decisions, vendor management, financial analysis and project planning. They are absolutely needed if […]

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What kind of management works best to increase workers’ productivity, and why?

I think it is management that has a clear vision of where it wants to go, communicates that vision, and makes sure the people who make up the company are part of/contribute to it. Management that gives everyone the power to act and the power to decide, within a framework that is defined and clear […]

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How do you validate a problem in a market?

There are several scenarios when validating a problem in a market. The simplest situation is when this problem is already tackled by one (or several) existing companies. You “just” need to analyze their activity in that market. For example, their business model, the number of customers, the type of customers, the number of products sold […]

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How can software engineering platform teams “sell” their internal product to other teams to drive adoption?

A Platform team must sell their internal product by adopting an entrepreneur’s mindset and starting with the basics: bridge the communication to the needs of internal clients and display the benefits for their end client. The very reason for the platform’s existence is one or several of the following : Simplify the client’s growth Remove […]

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The Mythos Milestone: When Artificial Intelligence Outpaces Human Engineering

The history of technology is often measured in incremental steps, but every few decades, a leap occurs that fundamentally reorders the landscape of human capability. Anthropic’s recent internal unveiling of its latest model, codenamed Mythos, represents such a leap. While the public has grown accustomed to the impressive generative capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), Mythos […]

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The Regulatory Advantage: Why Anthropic Is Gaining Ground on OpenAI in the European Enterprise Race

This article offers a complementary perspective to Episode 240 of the Moonshots podcast, a series I highly recommend for its depth on the impacts of technology and AI. It builds on their discussion of the strategic battle between Anthropic and OpenAI to capture the enterprise space, bringing a distinctly European lens to the conversation. The […]

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Don’t Just Hire Talent, “Save” It: How Automation and Al Turn Human Wisdom into a Permanent Asset

Over the past twenty years, working across a diverse array of companies, countries, and industries, I have observed a recurring pattern regarding how organizations succeed—and how they fail. I want to share a piece of wisdom that has become the cornerstone of my professional philosophy: in order to perform better continuously, an enterprise must maintain […]