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Outsource .NET development the right way. Matt Watson built Stackify and staffs AMC’s .NET team. Here’s why most companies get the model wrong.

I built a .NET APM product and staff AMC Theatres’ .NET engineering team. Here’s what offshore .NET development actually looks like when it works.

A few weeks ago, we sat down at Full Scale to figure out which of our own internal projects actually mattered. We interviewed about 30 people across t...

The best engineering leadership has little to do with being the strongest engineer in the room. It’s about making everyone around you more productive.

Is Agile dead? No. The bureaucratic version deserves to die. But the Agile mindset is more important than ever in an AI-accelerated world where contex...

Scrum vs Kanban is not about which framework is better. It is about which one fits your work and your team. Here is how to actually choose.

You don’t hire a 10x engineer, you build the environment that creates one. Here’s how to build a team of 10x engineers without paying 10x salaries.

Agile vs Waterfall is not a religious war. After 20 years running both, here is when each one wins and why most teams actually run a hybrid of the two...

The 10x developer is real, but it has nothing to do with genius coding. It’s knowing what to build, plus the ownership, time, and talent to go do it.

Software development metrics, from a 4x founder and CTO: the handful that are hard to game, the popular ones that lie, and how to measure a team you c...

Software development methodologies, ranked by what actually works: a CTO’s honest take on the top 10 and why the team matters more than the framework.

How to hire software engineers, from a founder who’s done it in four countries: the four sourcing paths, what each really costs, and how to pick the r...

A technical product owner (TPO) reads code and owns the backlog. Here’s what a TPO does, how it differs from a product owner, and whether you need to...

Application maintenance and support keeps live software working after launch. Here’s what it really involves, why apps break on their own, and how to...

The biggest IT outsourcing trend in 2026 isn’t AI or cloud. It’s that cost stopped being the main reason companies outsource, and AI reset what the wo...