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.
Episodes
6 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...
Trailer: Every Honest Answer Comes With a But
Every honest answer in technology comes with conditions.The Qualified Answer is a decisions podcast for senior technology leaders - the ones who own the call, and the ones who execute it.Each episode is either a decision case...