Launchpad so - you want to be a CTO...
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Slidedeck for a presentation done on day 3 on Google Developer Launchpad Week in Germany. It gives you an idea what the job of a CTO means and some best practices how to cope and manage it.
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- 2. Confidential & Proprietary Who is this guy??
- 3. Confidential & Proprietary Were we all start… ● Tech loving ● 30-40% Geek / 60-70% Nerd ● Academic (STEM) ● You are essential!!!
- 4. Confidential & Proprietary Business Vision People Mgmt Tech- nology Coding Archi- tecture Strategy Budgets Culture Hiring Goals Firing CTO Product Mgmt
- 5. Confidential & Proprietary Business Vision People Mgmt Tech- nology Coding Archi- tecture Strategy Budgets Culture Hiring Goals Firing CTO Product Mgmt
- 6. Confidential & Proprietary Time Comfort Zone Prototype- Get shit done First Product Iterate Product Iterate Product Iterate Product
- 7. Confidential & Proprietary Leaving the Comfort Zone... ● Product is more important than technology… ○ Choose tech so it supports the product ○ Choose tech that is long living and supported by large corps ○ Choose tech that is productive ○ Choose tech that makes it easy to hire the team ● Quality versus Agility ○ Documentation gets important ○ Maintainability ○ Onboarding ○ Architecture ● Licenses, SLAs... ○ Open source libs come with licenses - check Copyleft
- 8. Confidential & Proprietary Coding … no more... ● Keep your muscles trained… ● ...know the soon to be latest and greatest... ● ...but be ok with leaving coding to others. ● … I mean: Leave it to others. ● They will make mishaps… fine ● They will do it differently… fine ● They will have their own ideas… fine
- 9. Confidential & Proprietary Business Vision People Mgmt Tech- nology Coding Archi- tecture Strategy Budgets Culture Hiring Goals Firing CTO Product Mgmt
- 10. Confidential & Proprietary Engineering != Product Management Engineering is EXTREMELY important but… ...yet another role!! ● Consult (Feasibility, costs, time, additional ideas…) ● Technical quality is your extreme… Know where your company is heading to and reflect this in the team!!!
- 11. Confidential & Proprietary Business Vision People Mgmt Tech- nology Coding Archi- tecture Strategy Budgets Culture Hiring Goals Firing CTO Product Mgmt
- 12. Confidential & Proprietary Know what you need, know what you want... ● Strategy and product define needs ● Think buy versus build!!! ● You will almost never find the perfect person!! But people can learn… so can you!! ● Think senior versus junior ○ As a startup, you can hardly offer security, aka look for <30 and >45 people ● Employer branding & marketing ○ Hackathons, Meetups, GitHub... ● Hiring is everybody’s job… and yours especially!!!
- 14. Confidential & Proprietary You are part of two teams: Executive management Engineering If in doubt, executive wins!!
- 15. Confidential & Proprietary Business Vision People Mgmt Tech- nology Coding Archi- tecture Strategy Budgets Culture Hiring Goals Firing CTO Product Mgmt
- 17. Confidential & Proprietary Manage your Manager - Decision Briefing Auswertung des Auftrag http://www.mc. edu/rotc/files/8413/1471/7313/MSL_20 1_L08a_Effective_Army_Briefing.pdf
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- 19. Confidential & Proprietary The last nugget on your way... Think like an Economist!! Principle 1: People respond to incentives Principle 2: There is no such thing as a free lunch Principle 3: Nothing is only one thing Principle 4: The law of the unanticipated influences Principle 5: The law of the unintended consequences Principle 6: No one has complete control
- 21. Confidential & Proprietary Leadership means Style... This is mine… ● Be predictable, never surprise negatively ● If it’s bad, it was me. If it’s good, it was the team. ● Think longterm ● My team is somewhere between acquaintance and friends ● Share, share, share… ● Be respected but always listen, learn, and react ● Be big and bold, energize, confident, visionary ● Be a human being
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