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The Decision Record · Topic · 02 articles

Technology strategy and investment decisions, without the slideware

A technology strategy is only as good as the decisions it changes. The useful questions are concrete: what gets built this year, what gets bought, what waits, and what the business gives up for each choice.

This topic collects decision frameworks you can take into a planning meeting: how to build a roadmap people believe, and how to decide whether a capability should be built in-house at all.

  • What should a technology roadmap include?
  • Should we build or buy this software?
  • How do we decide what gets funded first?

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Build vs buy software: a decision framework for founders and CTOs

Build versus buy is really a question about where to spend scarce engineering attention. This framework replaces the usual debate with five questions, a decision matrix and a scorecard you can take into the meeting.

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