One reason why your CEO needs to be technical. I run my own small software shop, and I can sit with my developers and actually see that the code needs refactori

One reason why your CEO needs to be technical. I run my own small software shop, and I can sit with my developers and actually see that the code needs refactoring. Indeed, it is often me (the CEO) that actually forces a refactoring sprint on the team. They usually want to move on to the next beautiful feature. But long term, our feature velocity and product quality suffers when the internals are bad.