Strategic Tech
JUNE 2, 2021
If you’re not sure where to start, talk to product leaders directly or review company townhall presentation. If the initiative is tied to improvements or certain business metrics or OKRs, this can help to get a sense of the value. Having a quantifiable number. Usual caveats apply regarding the quality of those numbers.
Marv's Smart Future
MAY 21, 2018
Long acquisition programs also insure that nobody in the acquisition system is personally responsible for failure because a Program Manager’s (PM) 3-4-year leadership tour only covers a portion of the full requirement-to-IOC (Initial Operational Capability) timeline.
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LeanEssays
JULY 16, 2015
In the First Round Review article I'm Sorry, But Agile Won't Fix Your Products , Adam Pisoni, co-founder and former CTO of Yammer, contends that “While SCRUM did manage to rein in impulsive managers, it ended up being used more to exert tighter control over engineers’ work.” Yes, this means writing a lot more code.
The Citus Data
JANUARY 11, 2022
And if your skill set / interests are such that the most generous way for you to give back to the community is in ways beyond code, giving a conference talk is way #3 in this talk I gave at FOSDEM 2020 about Fibonacci spirals and ways to contribute to Postgres. Sometimes a talk does more than teach—you can delight people.
Greg Brockman
JANUARY 9, 2017
It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO , in which I documented my quest for a role where I could have scalable impact by writing code. Technical leadership should call the shots while still doing hands-on technical work. Geoff is proud to have contributed a management trick 1.)
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