Pragmatic Tech Execution Blog

For a founder, every decision carries weight and the pressure to “get it right” can he heavy. I put together the following adaptive decision-making map to help myself (and other founders) work through ambiguity and move forward with clarity.

When your requirements are in multiple, disparate systems, you are one question away from chaos. You need someone to roll up their sleeves and create a process that works. PTX offers you this clarity through Clarity Sessions and Fractional Work.

One thing I enjoy about having started a company in Portland is the chance to connect with so many other founders and founders-to-be. I'm not an expert (yet!), but I have gathered some resources along the way. This blog contains links that helped me kick-start my founder journey in the Portland Metro area.  This list is far from exhaustive, but it contains some of the key beacons that helped me in my journey. Thanks to all the organizations and individuals who have helped me

The mechanics behind executing with urgency are a mindset to get all goals completed by the deadline as well as a specific set of tactics. The tactics include determining Top Issues and keeping the team's focus on them. When the ball is in someone else's hands, an engineering leader maintains focus on the ball.

Explore the Pragmatic Tech Execution Starter Pack, including decision-making rubrics, execution playbooks, and hands-on exercises for scaling engineering teams navigating complexity and urgency.

Welcome to Pragmatic Tech Execution! This is something I have wanted to do for a while.  In two and a half decades in big tech, I honed an approach to turn strategies into execution plans and consistently deliver something the customer wants and needs.  I refined these techniques in extreme environments.  That is, I worked in big tech, but I gravitated towards the new and unproven initiatives, the initiatives with nascent markets that we were learning about as we went, the in