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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

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Innovation chief Claus T. Jensen on executing a vision

CIO

On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , we delved into Jensen’s leadership playbook, mindset, and philosophies and how they help him foster innovation and build a learning culture. It requires a lot of technical leadership to think through what things need to be integrated upfront. That is the ambition.

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Should You Build in-house or Outsource Development of Your Mobile Apps?

CTOvision

This post is the continuation of a series discussing why a CTO makes or breaks your enterprise mobile strategy and in case you’ve missed it we have already discussed how to choose between building native apps vs. adopting the mobile web. In the series, this third post will be useful when the choice has been made to develop native apps.

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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. Leading a technical team demands more than just management skills, but also technical prowess, and the ability to navigate the tech world. to produce great technology strategies. And he shows how you can, too.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

Unfortunately, having a technical background and being a good coder doesn''t necessarily translate well into being a good CTO. Strategy, Planning, Key Relationships and R&D. They need to establish the development and support process and development culture. That often doesn''t happen.

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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. We also want goals, strategy, and direction to be consistent – and to not change too quickly. Predictability. Drive toward alignment.

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10 Leading Books on Social Business

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

I particularly liked how he explained what’s often the toughest part: That social business transformation requires a genuine cultural shift in how companies do business and in the way they interact with customers and prospects. Honorable mentions: The Executive’s Guide to Enterprise Social Media Strategy by Thomas and Barlow.

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