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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.

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.

This Case Study showcases the positive impact that Adaptive Change Control and Designing Predictable Releases have when applied to talented scaling engineering teams that happen to say yes to customer requests without considering the impact and release software that has defects customers later find. Adaptive Change Control helps teams include customer changes without derailing plans, and Designing Predictable Releases helps them release on-schedule with high-quality repeatab

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.

I was once on a project with an incredibly tight end of year deadline and only a few months of runway to deliver.  A slip of even a day...

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...