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Episode Synopsis
This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Livio Zanardo jumped in mid-gaming break to share how his fractional practice has gone from quiet to bursting — enough that a waiting list might be next. We talked through picking the high-value work, parking the low-value stuff, and how calling yourself “fractional” makes strategic sales easier.Stephen Lauck drew a hard line between strategy and delivery — why mixing them can bury the real work — and made the case that most companies don’t need a DevOps army, just a couple of great people to build and run the pipelines.Michael Payne told a cautionary tale about a 30-person infrastructure team that couldn’t ship in over a year, and how that inability to deliver sank the project.We got into: Agile’s leaky abstractions and why it rarely works as advertised Tool-building rabbit holes that never reach the outcome Giving teams “air” so technical debt disappears Risk, compliance, and the hot-rod-to-Costco problemNo slides. No pitches. No agenda. Just honest conversation.📅 Recorded July 28, 2025🎙️ Hosted by David Raistrick.Join a future sessionExplore the For Fractionals community
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