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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. But be careful, and mind the gap – the Founder-Developer Gap, that is! It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product.

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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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#774 Cultivating Developer Joy with Rajeev Rajan, CTO at Atlassian

Modern CTO

Today we’re talking to Rajeev Rajan, CTO at Atlassian. We discuss how Rajeev is creating joy for developers at Atlassian, the ways in which they’re transforming their organization, and how being a parent has impacted Rajeev’s leadership style more than anything else. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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Cengage Group CTO Jim Chilton on the P&L difference

CIO

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy for the future.

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The hidden benefits of adding a CTO to your board

TechCrunch

Abby Kearns , chief technology officer at Puppet , has more than 20 years of experience scaling growth for numerous Fortune 500 and startup companies. In a time of chaos and change, there is no senior leader that can navigate this sort of change better than a CTO. Abby Kearns. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Role of a Chief Technology Officer in Different Business Sizes

CTO Academy

Generally speaking, the role of a chief technology officer involves strategic management and execution of technology initiatives within an organization. It is, therefore, pivotal in shaping and implementing the technology roadmap while aligning it with the company’s overall goals and vision.

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

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

With quality assurance/control already embedded in our development process, what if we expand the role of our developers to champion usability and customer delight? As the CTO, it is your job to determine how to implement these important features.

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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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E-book: 5 Strategies to Boost Software Deliveries

Finally, someone summarized in 5 practical strategies on how to improve any software development workflow. In this e-book written in partnership with Wesley Zapellini, he shared his vast in Managing Agile Teams. Real-life examples, charts, and graphs!

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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. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. They have value in many cases but increasingly are fraught with peril.

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Success Story: Swiss Insurtech Company Hires a Remote CTO from Ukraine

Swiss Insurtech startup decided to go the 2nd way and found a trusted partner to build a dedicated development team in Ukraine. As the case study describes, a Senior Software Engineer with Scrum Master duties was promoted to the role of CTO of a Swiss company while residing most of the time in Ukraine.

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The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data: How to Go From Concept to Reality

Speaker: Dr. Joe Perez, Chief Technology Officer at SolonTek and Senior Systems Analyst at NC Dept. of Health & Human Services

As a CTO, you see the end result of those concepts but will they ever become reality? Ascertain how the iterative implementation cycle works: Deploy, Discover, Discern, Develop. Anyone can make a pretty bar graph, but can you make sound decisions based on that graph? Is it actionable or is it only fluff?

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App development platforms - Flutter - React Native VS - Native Framworks

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Building Evolvable Architectures

Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks

The software development ecosystem exists in a state of dynamic equilibrium, where any new tool, framework, or technique leads to disruption and the establishment of a new equilibrium. It’s no surprise many CIOs and CTOs are struggling to adapt, in part because their architecture isn’t equipped to evolve.