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.
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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 good leadership decisions: how you get people to care when there's no ROI line for it, why culture has to be lived rather than written on a wall, and the ...
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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.
Herry Wiputra spent seven and a half years at hipages tackling that exact problem. After accelerating product and engineering, he made a controversial call - bre...
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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 to confront: the difference between intending to monitor a system and actually building the feedback loop that does it for you. He works through the architecture ...
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Guest: David Broeren
In 2011, David walked into his first delivery manager role and inherited a problem with no easy exit. A major Australian bank's business banking platform had been rated fourth of four in an indep...
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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-com boom to dissect a spectacular B2B reverse auction failure—and explains why the hard lessons learned then are repeating themselves in today's AI gold rush.
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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 - a senior leader walks you through one real call they had to make, what they chose, what they traded away, and what they wish they'd known - or a solo ...
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