The Qualified Answer
The Qualified Answer dissects the real decisions senior technology leaders make - what was chosen, what was traded away, and what they wish they'd known.
Because every honest expert answer comes with conditions. This podcast unpacks them.
The Qualified Answer
Latest Episodes
Technology Is Made of People
You can run a perfect dashboard and still be making bad calls. The numbers say everything's fine - but you haven't spoken to anyone close to the work in weeks.In this solo episode, Simon unpacks the three people-shaped foundations of goo...
Going Fast as a Company without Gatekeepers
What if the whole business went fast together?You've spent two years getting product and engineering shipping multiple times a day. Releases are fast and of high quality. Then you notice the company isn't actually moving any faster.<...
Bill Shock and the Feedback Loop I Forgot
You wired up a service, did the mental arithmetic, moved on. Then the bill arrived and it wasn't $20, $50, or even $100. It was thousands.In this solo episode, Simon Elisha walks through his own recent bill shock and what it forced him t...
The Counterfactual: Why Repairing Beat Rewriting and Outsourcing
Guest: David Broeren ...
Welcome to The Qualified Answer: Surviving Tech Bubbles & The Gorilla Game
Imagine spending millions of dollars and months of preparation on a revolutionary e-commerce platform, only to launch to absolute crickets. In the inaugural episode of The Qualified Answer, host Simon Elisha takes us back to the dot-co...