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Ask HN: Are there mental models that CTOs rely on regardless of company stage?

2 points by fapi1974 ↗ HN
The idea is that these frameworks help answer questions at the MVP stage and at the scaling stage and beyond. I'll throw out a few to get the ball rolling:

Urgent/Important Matrix

Stakeholder Mapping

Cost/Quality/Speed triangle

Irreducibility (9 women 1 month pregnant example)

Redundancy

Margin of safety

Opportunity Costs

Bottlenecks

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fapi1974
For the sake of argument, I could see where stakeholder mapping (understanding what is expected of your from various parts of the org) is not really relevant until later on. That said...customers, team, CEO etc are stakeholders, so...