For Tech Leaders
Tailored for first time CTOs or tech leaders at Seed and Series A
- Expand your commercial skills and gain insights into the business aspects of technology decisions, enabling you to align tech strategy more closely with the company’s overall business goals.
- Enhance your ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a way that is accessible and relevant to non-technical stakeholders, including CEOs and investors.
- Learn to manage your technology resources not just as operational necessities but as strategic assets that drive business value and innovation.
- Master the art of using technical metrics (like commits, code releases, team throughput) to track and demonstrate the effectiveness of your technology strategy in terms that resonate with business leaders.
- Understand how your technology perspective can add value in fundraising.
- Learn how your technology organization can become the driver of organizational change and growth, while maintaining focus on delivering a rock solid product.
TOPIC WE COVER ON THE DAY
Agenda
Part 01: Technology's position in the business
- Looking across different stages of a business’s lifecycle and how that affects the CTO role.
- Understanding other functions in the organization and their drivers.
- Learning to communicate the nuances of critical technology decisions, including the necessary tradeoffs without losing your audience.
Part 2: Expectations Of Your Product and Engineering Teams: Focus on customers, enable feedback and innovation, manage technical debt
- Understanding the value of product management, including its roles and responsibilities within an organization.
- Harness a founders input, without disrupting proven process.
- How to truly put your customer needs at the center by effectively integrating customer feedback.
- Addressing the unique challenges and perspectives of non-founders in product management roles, providing insights for diverse professional backgrounds, and maximizing the output and efficiency of a product team.
Part 3: How Effective Is Your Tech Team? Mastering the Metrics and Talent Lifecycle
- Learning how an engineering team can be measured and identifying the signs of a team that is having trouble.
- Understanding the balance between moving fast and retaining high-quality software.
- Exploring strategic decision-making in engineering and gaining insights into leveraging frameworks like DORA and SPACE for effective team evaluation.
- Managing the talent lifecycle for engineers.
Part 4: Aligning Tech Team’s Metrics with Business and Financial Goals
- Aligning engineering objectives with broader business goals for strategic synergy.
- Getting fluent in mapping data from technical systems to meaningful insight.
- Understanding the cross-functional impact of engineering and its application in various organizational areas.
- Developing financial fluency in modeling the costs associated with engineering teams, including operational expenses and investment strategies.
Part 5: Aligning Vision, Operations, and Team Dynamics In Example Cadence
- Focusing on aligning team dynamics and operations with the company’s overarching vision and strategic goals.
- Promoting transparency and effective communication within the engineering team to facilitate the right conversations at the right times.
- Structuring team dynamics and cadences to reflect and support the company’s vision and operational strategy.
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