Refactoring Podcast

Good Tech Strategy / Bad Tech Strategy 🔮 — with Anna Shipman


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Today's guest is Anna Shipman!

Anna is CTO at Kooth, former Technical Director at Financial Times, a Keynote speaker and accomplished author.
With Anna, we talked about her journey in tech and how to develop a good technical strategy, drawing from stories and examples from her 20 plus years of engineering experience.
Here is what we talked about:
(00:54) Introduction
(01:20) Anna's journey in Tech
(06:36) Going from public to private
(09:17) What does Kooth do?
(12:53) Technical strategy definition
(15:01) Applying the strategy
(24:53) Improving over time
(30:10) The strategy framework
(33:38) The pitfalls of setting up a strategy
(36:23) Converge team and strategy
(41:45) The strategist authority

Here are a few articles and resources that were mentioned throughout the interview:

  • A faster FT.com
  • No next next
  • Building Kooth
  • Anna’s website
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