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Why Your Startup Needs a Fractional CTO – TechEmpower

TechEmpower CTO

A Fractional CTO bridges the gap between founders and developers to help keep your tech strategy aligned with your business goals. This helps your startup stay agile and competitive in a fast-paced marketplace.

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Building an Effective Chief Technology Office on Different Business Scales

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It is now common for a team leader or project manager to find themselves placed in the CTO’s shoes at a moment’s notice. Often, this brand-new executive is forced to form a Chief Technology Office out of thin air and without any help. This is the challenge facing what we call the accidental CTO.

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CTO KPIs with Templates and Tracking Procedures – Explained by a Seasoned Chief Technology Officer

CTO Academy

In this post, Jason Noble, Academy’s Chief Technology Officer, explains the design of highly relevant CTO KPIs and shows you how to a) track them and, more importantly, b) use them to improve performance. Now, the odds are that you’re either a CTO in a start-up or fast-growing company or soon to become one.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. A CTO can help you find the right answers. Instead, they should consider a Fractional CTO who can help close the gap. It might be.

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What E-Commerce Performance Metrics Are CTOs Monitoring?

In this eBook, Danny Miles, CTO of Dollar Shave Club, reveals an efficient framework for thinking about and prioritizing the performance metrics that matter most to him, providing a blueprint for fellow e-commerce CTOs to follow as they evaluate their own business.

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CIO Leadership Live with Marc Hale, Chief Technology Officer, AIA NZ

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Marc Hale, Chief Technology Officer, AIA NZ, on enabling healthier outcomes for customers and his approach to his own career transformation. Watch the episode: Listen to the episode: CIO Leadership Live

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CIO Leadership Live with Ivneet Kaur, Chief Technology Officer at Silicon Valley Bank

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Ivneet Kaur, Chief Technology Officer at Silicon Valley Bank, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. Watch this episode: Listen to this episode: CIO, CIO Leadership Live

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

As the CTO, it is your job to determine how to implement these important features. However, despite the importance of the customer's voice, it has become one of the most overlooked aspects, leading to a gap between vision and execution on even the most practical metrics.

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Product Transformation: Adapting Your Solutions for Cloud Models

Speaker: Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant

Whether you're a seasoned CTO or an industry trailblazer, this webinar will help make your product ready to meet the competition by adopting an architecture that is optimized for innovation. Many do this by simply replicating their current architectures in the cloud.

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How To Design Your Next Roadmap with Data-Driven Pit Stops Masterclass

Speaker: Sonia Singhal, Product Manager at eBay

These days, a simple A/B test can seem to incorporate the whole alphabet, making the data you worked so hard for impossible to incorporate and creating a nightmare for the CTO in charge. A Live/On-Demand Masterclass. So, how do we know we are testing the right thing? Are we even gaining any new insight into the data we are receiving?

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Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity, and Joy

Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

As a senior software leader, you likely spend more time working on the architecture of your systems than the architecture of your organization. Yet, structuring our teams and organizations is a critical factor for success. The wrong organizational structure can create friction of all kinds.

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Finding The Application Modernization Strategy That Is Right For Your Business

As a business leader, you understand the importance of modernizing your applications. However, it can be difficult to find the right strategy. This whitepaper can help you modernize your apps without disrupting your business.

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Decoding Code Review and Pull Requests - a handbook for Software Engineers and Tech Leads

A complete handbook on implementing a code review culture in your organization. Written by Elaine Watanabe, it's a practical e-book with useful examples and references, and a must-read for all tech teams.

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. They have value in many cases but increasingly are fraught with peril. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams?

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The Six Principles of Persuasion

Speaker: Michael Carducci, CTO, Mago:Tech

We might be trying to get our CEO on-board with investment in a new technology or a rearchitecture effort, or we might want culture or process changes by our team. As senior tech leaders, we often fall prey to thinking that a “good idea” and logical case is sufficient to get the desired response and result.