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| cto vs vp of engineering: The Manager's Path Camille Fournier, 2017-03-13 Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal—especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager. From mentoring interns to working with senior staff, you’ll get actionable advice for approaching various obstacles in your path. This book is ideal whether you’re a new manager, a mentor, or a more experienced leader looking for fresh advice. Pick up this book and learn how to become a better manager and leader in your organization. Begin by exploring what you expect from a manager Understand what it takes to be a good mentor, and a good tech lead Learn how to manage individual members while remaining focused on the entire team Understand how to manage yourself and avoid common pitfalls that challenge many leaders Manage multiple teams and learn how to manage managers Learn how to build and bootstrap a unifying culture in teams |
| cto vs vp of engineering: The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded Michael D. Watkins, 2013-04-23 The world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transition Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize or even derail your success. In this updated and expanded version of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of transitions—no matter where you are in your career. Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions and adviser to senior leaders in all types of organizations, also addresses today’s increasingly demanding professional landscape, where managers face not only more frequent transitions but also steeper expectations once they step into their new jobs. By walking you through every aspect of the transition scenario, Watkins identifies the most common pitfalls new leaders encounter and provides the tools and strategies you need to avoid them. You’ll learn how to secure critical early wins, an important first step in establishing yourself in your new role. Each chapter also includes checklists, practical tools, and self-assessments to help you assimilate key lessons and apply them to your own situation. Whether you’re starting a new job, being promoted from within, embarking on an overseas assignment, or being tapped as CEO, how you manage your transition will determine whether you succeed or fail. Use this book as your trusted guide. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Managing the Unmanageable Mickey W. Mantle, Ron Lichty, 2012-09-16 “Mantle and Lichty have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level. Their rules of thumb and coaching advice are great blueprints for new and experienced software engineering managers alike.” —Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora “I wish I’d had this material available years ago. I see lots and lots of ‘meat’ in here that I’ll use over and over again as I try to become a better manager. The writing style is right on, and I love the personal anecdotes.” —Steve Johnson, VP, Custom Solutions, DigitalFish All too often, software development is deemed unmanageable. The news is filled with stories of projects that have run catastrophically over schedule and budget. Although adding some formal discipline to the development process has improved the situation, it has by no means solved the problem. How can it be, with so much time and money spent to get software development under control, that it remains so unmanageable? In Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams , Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty answer that persistent question with a simple observation: You first must make programmers and software teams manageable. That is, you need to begin by understanding your people—how to hire them, motivate them, and lead them to develop and deliver great products. Drawing on their combined seventy years of software development and management experience, and highlighting the insights and wisdom of other successful managers, Mantle and Lichty provide the guidance you need to manage people and teams in order to deliver software successfully. Whether you are new to software management, or have already been working in that role, you will appreciate the real-world knowledge and practical tools packed into this guide. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Modern CTO Joel Beasley, 2018-02-28 Everything you need to know to be a Modern CTO. Developers are not CTOs, but developers can learn how to be CTOs. In Modern CTO, Joel Beasely provides readers with an in-depth road map on how to successfully navigate the unexplored and jagged transition between these two roles. Drawing from personal experience, Joel gives a refreshing take on the challenges, lessons, and things to avoid on this journey. Readers will learn how Modern CTOs: Manage deadlines Speak up Know when to abandon ship and build a better one Deal with poor code Avoid getting lost in the product and know what UX mistakes to watch out for Manage people and create momentum ... plus much more Modern CTO is the ultimate guidebook on how to kick start your career and go from developer to CTO. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: The Tech Executive Operating System Aviv Ben-Yosef, 2021 Leaders of tech organizations have to regularly adapt their strategies in an ever-changing market. Creating a culture that understands and supports both the technical and the nontechnical is a refined skill that can be difficult to master even for a leader with years of experience. The Tech Executive Operating System helps you apply your personal expertise and build a thriving R&D organization that moves the needle. Tech companies spend an average of 15% of their revenue on R&D. As they grow, they find the return on this large investment decreases at a fast pace. Executives and leaders of companies big and small are at a loss and seeking guidance. Author Ben-Yosef expertly walks you through the need to set goals, translate business objectives to R&D terms, and establish the organizational structures and processes to create the biggest impact. The Tech Executive Operating System is a rare book that provides useful yardsticks to measure the progress and contributions of managers, teams, and individuals in your organization. Tech executives, first-time startup founders, managers , CEOs, and other non-technical founders of startups who want to better understand a significant part of their organization all have invaluable knowledge to gain from The Tech Executive Operating System. Ben-Yosef's thorough research and real-world examples enhance the lessons and make your goals clear. Engineering organizations can be vastly improved by this multi-faceted approach, and the future of tech is calling for it. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: EMPOWERED Marty Cagan, 2020-12-03 Great teams are comprised of ordinary people that are empowered and inspired. They are empowered to solve hard problems in ways their customers love yet work for their business. They are inspired with ideas and techniques for quickly evaluating those ideas to discover solutions that work: they are valuable, usable, feasible and viable. This book is about the idea and reality of achieving extraordinary results from ordinary people. Empowered is the companion to Inspired. It addresses the other half of the problem of building tech products?how to get the absolute best work from your product teams. However, the book's message applies much more broadly than just to product teams. Inspired was aimed at product managers. Empowered is aimed at all levels of technology-powered organizations: founders and CEO's, leaders of product, technology and design, and the countless product managers, product designers and engineers that comprise the teams. This book will not just inspire companies to empower their employees but will teach them how. This book will help readers achieve the benefits of truly empowered teams-- |
| cto vs vp of engineering: The Effective Engineer Edmond Lau, 2015-03-19 Introducing The Effective Engineer--the only book designed specifically for today's software engineers, based on extensive interviews with engineering leaders at top tech companies, and packed with hundreds of techniques to accelerate your career. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager James Stanier, 2020-06-09 Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does it even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully. Going from engineer to manager doesn't have to be intimidating. Engineers can be managers, and fantastic ones at that. Cast aside the rhetoric and focus on practical, hands-on techniques and tools. You'll become an effective and supportive team leader that your staff will look up to. Start with your transition to being a manager and see how that compares to being an engineer. Learn how to better organize information, feel productive, and delegate, but not micromanage. Discover how to manage your own boss, hire and fire, do performance and salary reviews, and build a great team. You'll also learn the psychology: how to ship while keeping staff happy, coach and mentor, deal with deadline pressure, handle sensitive information, and navigate workplace politics. Consider your whole department. How can you work with other teams to ensure best practice? How do you help form guilds and committees and communicate effectively? How can you create career tracks for individual contributors and managers? How can you support flexible and remote working? How can you improve diversity in the industry through your own actions? This book will show you how. Great managers can make the world a better place. Join us. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: CTOs at Work Scott E. Donaldson, Stanley G. Siegel, Gary Donaldson, 2012-03-28 Scott Donaldson, Stanley Siegel and Gary Donaldson interview many of the world's most influential chief technology officers in CTOs at Work, offering a brand-new companion volume to the highly acclaimed elite At Work books including Coders at Work, CIOS at Work and Venture Capitalists at Work. As the words “at work” suggest, the authors focus on how their interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of the CTO while revealing much more: how they got there, how they manage and allocate projects, and how they interact with business units and ensure that their companies take advantage of technologies, teamwork, and software development practices to respond to organizational needs and improve employee productivity. Surveying a variety of unique corporations, CTOs at Work offers insights into the present and future of CTOs in organizations around the world. Other books in the Apress At Work Series: Coders at Work, Seibel, 978-1-4302-1948-4 Venture Capitalists at Work, Shah & Shah, 978-1-4302-3837-9 CIOs at Work, Yourdon, 978-1-4302-3554-5 Founders at Work, Livingston, 978-1-4302-1078-8 European Founders at Work, Santos, 978-1-4302-3906-2 Women Leaders at Work, Ghaffari, 978-1-4302-3729-7 Advertisers at Work, Tuten, 978-1-4302-3828-7 Gamers at Work, Ramsay. 978-1-4302-3351-0 |
| cto vs vp of engineering: The Art of Agile Development James Shore, Shane Warden, 2008 For those considering Extreme Programming, this book provides no-nonsense advice on agile planning, development, delivery, and management taken from the authors' many years of experience. While plenty of books address the what and why of agile development, very few offer the information users can apply directly. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Building Great Software Engineering Teams Joshua Tyler, 2015-07-03 WINNER of Computing Reviews 20th Annual Best Review in the category Management “Tyler’s book is concise, reasonable, and full of interesting practices, including some curious ones you might consider adopting yourself if you become a software engineering manager.” —Fernando Berzal, CR, 10/23/2015 “Josh Tyler crafts a concise, no-nonsense, intensely focused guide for building the workhouse of Silicon Valley—the high-functioning software team.” —Gordon Rios, Summer Book Recommendations from the Smartest People We Know—Summer 2016 Building Great Software Engineering Teams provides engineering leaders, startup founders, and CTOs concrete, industry-proven guidance and techniques for recruiting, hiring, and managing software engineers in a fast-paced, competitive environment. With so much at stake, the challenge of scaling up a team can be intimidating. Engineering leaders in growing companies of all sizes need to know how to find great candidates, create effective interviewing and hiring processes, bring out the best in people and their work, provide meaningful career development, learn to spot warning signs in their team, and manage their people for long-term success. Author Josh Tyler has spent nearly a decade building teams in high-growth startups, experimenting with every aspect of the task to see what works best. He draws on this experience to outline specific, detailed solutions augmented by instructive stories from his own experience. In this book you’ll learn how to build your team, starting with your first hire and continuing through the stages of development as you manage your team for growth and success. Organized to cover each step of the process in the order you’ll likely face them, and highlighted by stories of success and failure, it provides an easy-to-understand recipe for creating your high-powered engineering team. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Staff Engineer Will Larson, 2021-02-28 At most technology companies, you'll reach Senior Software Engineer, the career level for software engineers, in five to eight years. At that career level, you'll no longer be required to work towards the next pro? motion, and being promoted beyond it is exceptional rather than ex? pected. At that point your career path will branch, and you have to decide between remaining at your current level, continuing down the path of technical excellence to become a Staff Engineer, or switching into engineering management. Of course, the specific titles vary by company, and you can replace Senior Engineer and Staff Engineer with whatever titles your company prefers.Over the past few years we've seen a flurry of books unlocking the en? gineering management career path, like Camille Fournier's The Man? ager's Path, Julie Zhuo's The Making of a Manager, Lara Hogan's Re? silient Management and my own, An Elegant Puzzle. The manage? ment career isn't an easy one, but increasingly there are maps avail? able for navigating it.On the other hand, the transition into Staff Engineer, and its further evolutions like Principal and Distinguished Engineer, remains chal? lenging and undocumented. What are the skills you need to develop to reach Staff Engineer? Are technical abilities alone sufficient to reach and succeed in that role? How do most folks reach this role? What is your manager's role in helping you along the way? Will you enjoy being a Staff Engineer or you will toil for years to achieve a role that doesn't suit you?Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track is a pragmatic look at attaining and operate in these Staff-plus roles. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: The Harvard Business Review Manager's Handbook Harvard Business Review, 2016-12-13 The one primer you need to develop your managerial and leadership skills. Whether you’re a new manager or looking to have more influence in your current management role, the challenges you face come in all shapes and sizes—a direct report’s anxious questions, your boss’s last-minute assignment of an important presentation, or a blank business case staring you in the face. To reach your full potential in these situations, you need to master a new set of business and personal skills. Packed with step-by-step advice and wisdom from Harvard Business Review’s management archive, the HBR Manager’s Handbook provides best practices on topics from understanding key financial statements and the fundamentals of strategy to emotional intelligence and building your employees’ trust. The book’s brief sections allow you to home in quickly on the solutions you need right away—or take a deeper dive if you need more context. Keep this comprehensive guide with you throughout your career and be a more impactful leader in your organization. In the HBR Manager’s Handbook you’ll find: - Step-by-step guidance through common managerial tasks - Short sections and chapters that you can turn to quickly as a need arises - Self-assessments throughout - Exercises and templates to help you practice and apply the concepts in the book - Concise explanations of the latest research and thinking on important management skills from Harvard Business Review experts such as Dan Goleman, Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, and Michael Porter - Real-life stories from working managers - Recaps and action items at the end of each chapter that allow you to reinforce or review the ideas quickly The skills covered in the book include: - Transitioning into a leadership role - Building trust and credibility - Developing emotional intelligence - Becoming a person of influence - Developing yourself as a leader - Giving effective feedback - Leading teams - Fostering creativity - Mastering the basics of strategy - Learning to use financial tools - Developing a business case |
| cto vs vp of engineering: The CTO Handbook Mark D. Minevich, 2004 Why spend countless hours searching for relevant thought leadership articles, specific pieces of statistical data, and navigable reference information, when one resource provides it all? In The CTO Handbook, former CTO of IBM Next Generation Group Mark Minevich, guides readers through what need not be a daunting world of IT management addressing such critical issues as: - Fundamentals, Importance of & Background on the CTO/CIO Profession - Strategic Roles & Responsibilities - Current Economic Climate & Changes - The New Generation & Digital Revolution - Outsourcing & Offshoring Implications for the US IT Market - New Market Economy- Creating Value for Customers - CTO Leadership & Coaching - Globalization, Innovation & Commercialization - & Much More Supplemental to Minevich's engaging commentary, this title includes a wealth of CTO/CIO related technology articles written by C-Level (CEO, CTO, CFO, CMO) executives from companies such as BMC, BEA, Novell, IBM, Bowstreet, Harte-Hankes, Reynolds & Reynolds, McAfee, Verisign, Peoplesoft, Boeing, GE, Perot Systems, and over 50 other companies along with a wealth of reference/appendix material including vital industry statistics, forms and interactive worksheets, field-specific resources and profiles of related professional organizations indispensable for any CTO, CIO or other Technology Executive. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Analog Circuit Design Volume Three Bob Dobkin, John Hamburger, 2014-11-29 Design Note Collection, the third book in the Analog Circuit Design series, is a comprehensive volume of applied circuit design solutions, providing elegant and practical design techniques. Design Notes in this volume are focused circuit explanations, easily applied in your own designs. This book includes an extensive power management section, covering switching regulator design, linear regulator design, microprocessor power design, battery management, powering LED lighting, automotive and industrial power design. Other sections span a range of analog design topics, including data conversion, data acquisition, communications interface design, operational amplifier design techniques, filter design, and wireless, RF, communications and network design. Whatever your application -industrial, medical, security, embedded systems, instrumentation, automotive, communications infrastructure, satellite and radar, computers or networking; this book will provide practical design techniques, developed by experts for tackling the challenges of power management, data conversion, signal conditioning and wireless/RF analog circuit design. - A rich collection of applied analog circuit design solutions for use in your own designs. - Each Design Note is presented in a concise, two-page format, making it easy to read and assimilate. - Contributions from the leading lights in analog design, including Bob Dobkin, Jim Williams, George Erdi and Carl Nelson, among others. - Extensive sections covering power management, data conversion, signal conditioning, and wireless/RF. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Startup Boards Brad Feld, Mahendra Ramsinghani, 2013-12-09 An essential guide to understanding the dynamics of a startup's board of directors Let's face it, as founders and entrepreneurs, you have a lot on your plate—getting to your minimum viable product, developing customer interaction, hiring team members, and managing the accounts/books. Sooner or later, you have a board of directors, three to five (or even seven) Type A personalities who seek your attention and at times will tell you what to do. While you might be hesitant to form a board, establishing an objective outside group is essential for startups, especially to keep you on track, call you out when you flail, and in some cases, save you from yourself. In Startup Boards, Brad Feld—a Boulder, Colorado-based entrepreneur turned-venture capitalist—shares his experience in this area by talking about the importance of having the right board members on your team and how to manage them well. Along the way, he shares valuable insights on various aspects of the board, including how they can support you, help you understand your startup's milestones and get to them faster, and hold you accountable. Details the process of choosing board members, including interviewing many people, checking references, and remembering that there should be no fear in rejecting a wrong fit Explores the importance of running great meetings, mixing social time with business time, and much more Recommends being a board member yourself at some other organization so you see the other side of the equation Engaging and informative, Startup Boards is a practical guide to one of the most important pieces of the startup puzzle. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: The Software Architect Elevator Gregor Hohpe, 2020-04-08 As the digital economy changes the rules of the game for enterprises, the role of software and IT architects is also transforming. Rather than focus on technical decisions alone, architects and senior technologists need to combine organizational and technical knowledge to effect change in their company’s structure and processes. To accomplish that, they need to connect the IT engine room to the penthouse, where the business strategy is defined. In this guide, author Gregor Hohpe shares real-world advice and hard-learned lessons from actual IT transformations. His anecdotes help architects, senior developers, and other IT professionals prepare for a more complex but rewarding role in the enterprise. This book is ideal for: Software architects and senior developers looking to shape the company’s technology direction or assist in an organizational transformation Enterprise architects and senior technologists searching for practical advice on how to navigate technical and organizational topics CTOs and senior technical architects who are devising an IT strategy that impacts the way the organization works IT managers who want to learn what’s worked and what hasn’t in large-scale transformation |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Chief Technology Officer Roger Dean Smith, 2009 Smith describes the role and responsibilities of the Chief Technology Officerand executives with similar titles. He provides a framework for understandingthe many unique flavors the position; identifies key responsibilities that gowith the job; and provides vignettes of successful CTOs. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In Ryan Jenkins, Steven Van Cohen, 2022-03-01 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER & FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH Connect your workforce, improve engagement, and drive productivity to undreamed-of levels Feelings of loneliness among employees are on the rise with 72% of global workers suffering from it. This sense of isolation is contributing to a real and growing mental health problem that affects both individuals and organizations. In Connectable, you’ll learn how tackling the issue of worker loneliness head on can transform an isolated workforce into one that’s happier, more engaged, and more productive. With more than a decade of experience spent helping companies lessen worker loneliness, Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen distill their methodology, showing you what’s causing today’s loneliness, the role inclusion plays in solving it, and how you can decrease loneliness and increase belonging, engagement, and performance with employees at every level―including yourself. You’ll learn how to: Identify lonely or burned out employees Build psychological safety within a team Create environments of belonging and inclusion Cultivate meaningful connections across team members (in person or remote) Build committed, driven, and high-performing organizations using the authors’ proprietary 4-step Less Loneliness FrameworkTM Jenkins and Van Cohen provide the perfect balance of science, statistics, stories, and strategies to help you move everyone on your team from isolated to all-in. Discover what ATMs, cocaine, Red Sox fans, and time travel have to do with moving teams from disconnected to connected. Connectable delivers the information, insights, and actionable strategies needed to awaken a renewed sense of connection throughout your organization. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Computerworld , 2002-04-01 For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Letters to a New Developer Dan Moore, 2020-08-07 Learn what you need to succeed as a developer beyond the code. The lessons in this book will supercharge your career by sharing lessons and mistakes from real developers. Wouldn’t it be nice to learn from others’ career mistakes? “Soft” skills are crucial to success, but are haphazardly picked up on the job or, worse, never learned. Understanding these competencies and how to improve them will make you a more effective team member and a more attractive hire. This book will teach you the key skills you need, including how to ask questions, how and when to use common tools, and how to interact with other team members. Each will be presented in context and from multiple perspectives so you’ll be able to integrate them and apply them to your own career quickly. What You'll Learn Know when the best code is no code Understand what to do in the first month of your job See the surprising number of developers who can’t program Avoid the pitfalls of working alone Who This Book Is For Anyone who is curious about software development as a career choice. You have zero to five years of software development experience and want to learn non-technical skills that can help your career. It is also suitable for teachers and mentors who want to provide guidance to their students and/or mentees. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Think Like a CTO Alan Williamson, 2023-04-11 An effective Chief Technology Officer shapes almost every aspect of a modern business. This book shares the experience and advice of veteran CTOs and industry experts for handling IT crises, leading tech teams, and creating an inspiring vision for your company. In Think Like a CTO you will learn: Effective interaction and relationship-building with other C-level executives Creating long term visions and executing on short term goals Interviewing, hiring, and terminating team members Negotiating salaries and managing promotions Architecting future-proofed systems Handling security breaches and ransomware attacks Putting together budgets and working with your CFO Identifying and managing outsourced vendor opportunities Managing and communicating bad news by leading with data, not passion Being the kind of leader that employees want to follow and emulate Becoming a CTO is an incredible accomplishment. It’s also one of the hardest transitions a technologist can make. This high-power and high-pressure role demands skills that are rarely developed as a software engineer. Think Like a CTO shines a light on all the areas an aspiring CTO needs to master to succeed. You’ll learn how to build incredible working relationships with the rest of the C-suite, transform a company with private equity, and recruit and manage your development team. With this book as your guide, you’ll quickly become a trusted leader figure with an inspiring vision for your company. Foreword by Ankit Mathur. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology The Chief Technology Officer balances business needs with the constantly evolving world of technology. Think Like a CTO helps you develop the skills and mindset you need to take on this critical role and emerge as a successful leader. Packed with insights from industry experts and veteran CTOs, this book shares practical strategies for navigating the high-stakes world of technology leadership. About the book Think Like a CTO shares hard-won lessons on how to thrive in the fast-paced role of Chief Technology Officer. Inside, you’ll learn to establish successful technology platforms and teams, with practical frameworks for software selection and implementation, bias-free interviews and performance reviews, and earning your place at the table with other senior leaders. You’ll appreciate the no-nonsense advice, insights, and war stories from CTO mentor Alan Williamson. What's inside Building productive relationships with other C-level executives Negotiating salaries and managing promotions Architecting future-proof systems Handling security breaches and ransomware attacks About the reader For technology leaders working in or aspiring towards a CTO role. About the author Alan Williamson has advised numerous CTOs who were catapulted into the big leagues by private equity investment, acquisition, and rapid growth. Table of Contents 1 The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) 2 Managing up 3 Visionary planning 4 Building a team 5 Interviewing, choosing, and onboarding 6 Team management 7 Annual reviews 8 Technology decisions 9 Development 10 Contract management 11 Documentation 12 Security 13 Housekeeping 14 Company growth 15 You, Inc. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: InfoWorld , 2002-04-08 InfoWorld is targeted to Senior IT professionals. Content is segmented into Channels and Topic Centers. InfoWorld also celebrates people, companies, and projects. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: CIO Best Practices Gary Cokins, Karl D. Schubert, Michael H. Hugos, Randy Betancourt, Alyssa Farrell, Bill Flemming, Jonathan Hujsak, 2010-11-09 CIO BEST PRACTICES Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology SECOND EDITION For anyone who wants to achieve better returns on their IT investments, CIO Best Practices, Second Edition presents the leadership skills and competencies required of a CIO addressing comprehensive enterprise strategic frameworks to fully leverage IT resources. Filled with real-world examples of CIO success stories, the Second Edition explores: CIO leadership responsibilities and opportunities The business impacts of both business and social networking, as well as ways the CIO can leverage the new reality of human connectivity on the Internet The increasingly inextricable relationships between customers, employees, and their use of personal information technologies Emerging cultural expectations and standards outside the workplace Current CRM best practices in terms of the relationship between customer preferences and shareholder wealth Enterprise energy utilization and sustainability practices otherwise known as Green IT with all the best practices collected here, in one place Best practices for one of the Internet's newest and most revolutionary technologies: cloud computing and ways it is shaping the new economics of business |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Lovability Brian de Haaff, 2017-04-25 Love is the surprising emotion that company builders cannot afford to ignore. Genuine, heartfelt devotion and loyalty from customers — yes, love — is what propels a select few companies ahead. Think about the products and companies that you really care about and how they make you feel. You do not merely likethose products, you adore them. Consider your own emotions and a key insight is revealed: Love is central to business. Nobody talks about it, but it is obvious in hindsight. Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It shares what Silicon Valley-based author and Aha! CEO Brian de Haaff knows from a career of founding successful technology companies and creating award-winning products. He reveals the secret to the phenomenal growth of Aha! and the engine that powers lasting customer devotion — a set of principles that he pioneered and named The Responsive Method. Lovability provides valuable lessons and actionable steps for product and company builders everywhere, including: • Why you should rethink everything you know about building a business • What a product really is • The magic of finding what your customers truly desire • How to turn business strategy and product roadmaps into customer love • Why you should chase company value, not valuation • Surveys to measure your company’s lovability Brian de Haaff has spent the last 20 years focused on business strategy, product management, and bringing disruptive technologies to market. And in preparation for writing this book, he interviewed well-known startup founders, product managers, executives, and CEOs at hundreds of name brand and agile organizations. Their experiences, along with headline-grabbing case studies (both inspiring successes and cautionary tales), will help readers discover how to build something that matters. Much has been written about how entrepreneurs build innovative products and successful businesses, but the author's message is original and refreshing. He convincingly explains that there is a better path forward — a people-first way grounded in love. In a business world that has increasingly emphasized hype over substance and get-big-at-any-cost thinking over profitable and sustainable growth, it's time for a new recipe for company success. Insightful, thought-provoking, and sometimes controversial, Lovability is the book that you turn to when you know there has to be a better way. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Beyond Basketball Mike Krzyzewski, Jamie K. Spatola, 2006-10-10 This is a collection of short but extraordinarily powerful essays as to how Coach K of Duke inspires, motivates, and teaches his basketball players about the game of life, both on and off the court. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Scalability Rules Martin L. Abbott, Michael T. Fisher, 2016-08-25 Fully updated! Fifty Powerful, Easy-to-Use Rules for Supporting Hyper Growth “Whether you’re taking on a role as a technology leader in a new company or you simply want to make great technology decisions, Scalability Rules will be the go-to resource on your bookshelf.” –Chad Dickerson, CTO, Etsy Scalability Rules, Second Edition, is the easy-to-use scalability primer and reference for every architect, developer, network/software engineer, web professional, and manager. Authors Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher have helped scale hundreds of high-growth companies and thousands of systems. Drawing on their immense experience, they present 50 up-to-the-minute technical best practices for supporting hyper growth practically anywhere. Fully updated to reflect new technical trends and experiences, this edition is even easier to read, understand, and apply. Abbott and Fisher have also added powerful “stories behind the rules”: actual experiences and case studies from CTOs and technology executives at Etsy, NASDAQ, Salesforce, Shutterfly, Chegg, Warby Parker, Twitter, and other scalability pioneers. Architects will find powerful technology-agnostic insights for creating and evaluating designs. Developers will discover specific techniques for handling everything from databases to state. Managers will get invaluable help in setting goals, making decisions, and interacting with technical teams. Whatever your role, you’ll find practical risk/benefit guidance for setting priorities, translating plans into action, and gaining maximum scalability at minimum cost. You’ll learn how to Simplify architectures and avoid “over-engineering” Design scale into your solution, so you can scale on a just-in-time basis Make the most of cloning and replication Separate functionality and split data sets Scale out, not up Get more out of databases without compromising scalability Eliminate unnecessary redirects and redundant double-checking Use caches and CDNs more aggressively, without unacceptable complexity Design for fault tolerance, graceful failure, and easy rollback Emphasize statelessness, and efficiently handle state when you must Effectively utilize asynchronous communication Learn from your own mistakes and others’ high-profile failures Prioritize your actions to get the biggest “bang for the buck” |
| cto vs vp of engineering: The Ultimate Guide to Build and Scale a Tech Team in Mexico CodersLink, Carlos A. Vazquez, 2020-04-08 Download the PDF versión for FREE here: https://coderslink.com/company/remote-tech-teams-guide/?utm_source=Smashwords What you'll find inside: All the information you need to land, build and scale a team in Mexico - as we call it, landing and expanding. * Current status of recruiting. From today's recruiting strategies to the rise of remote work and what companies are doing to scale their businesses. * The reality of Mexico's tech ecosystem. The factual truth of Mexico's tech ecosystem, the reasons why it's becoming a more popular destination and the reality behind some common media myths. * Landing and expanding a tech team in Mexico. Overview of the options you can employ to expand a tech team in Mexico, what we recommend, and how you can accomplish it. * Landing and expanding in action - Case Studies How different company types have leveraged Mexico to grow their tech teams and solve diverse business objectives. * Beyond hiring; managing new talent. The best practices we've seen in managing teams and talent across borders. This guide is ideal for CTO's, VP's of Engineering, Hiring Managers, and VP's of Operations looking for ways to expand tech teams. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Founders at Work Jessica Livingston, 2008-11-01 Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company. Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover? Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on the wall at a successful startup, to learn how it's done. But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businesses do—create value—more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. How? What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell you. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Computerworld , 2002-03-25 For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: If You Really Want to Change the World Henry Kressel, Norman Winarsky, 2015-09-29 Create a world-changing venture. Silicon Valley’s latest trend for creating new ventures is based on trial and error: test market needs with new product concepts and a minimum amount of capital, expect that the product may not meet the market need, so fail fast and try another product with the hope that a product-market fit will eventually emerge. But this fail fast, step-and-pivot philosophy is like taking a random walk in the forest without a compass. If You Really Want to Change the World is about helping entrepreneurs find true north. Henry Kressel and Norman Winarsky—technologists, inventors, and investors with stellar track records—provide a guide for those who wish to create a market-leading company that will have a real impact: a disciplined and staged approach they have used to launch, invest in, and develop scores of highly successful companies. If You Really Want to Change the World leads entrepreneurs through the critical stages of venture development, from concept to acquisition or public offering to maintaining a rich culture of innovation in the company. It is a guide by innovators for innovators, with approaches that are practical and timeless. Drawing on the authors’ experiences as well as those of their partners from around the world, Kressel and Winarsky share the stories of their triumphs and misses, demonstrate their method in action, and inspire their readers in the process. There are more opportunities now than ever before to build breakthrough companies that touch millions of lives. If this is your goal, let this book be your guide to creating world-changing ventures. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Platform Engineering Camille Fournier, Ian Nowland, 2024-10-08 Until recently, infrastructure was the backbone of organizations operating software they developed in-house. But now that cloud vendors run the computers, companies can finally bring the benefits of agile custom-centricity to their own developers. Adding product management to infrastructure organizations is now all the rage. But how's that possible when infrastructure is still the operational layer of the company? This practical book guides engineers, managers, product managers, and leaders through the shifts that modern platform-led organizations require. You'll learn what platform engineering is—and isn't—and what benefits and value it brings to developers and teams. You'll understand what it means to approach a platform as a product and learn some of the most common technical and managerial barriers to success. With this book, you'll: Cultivate a platform-as-product, developer-centric mindset Learn what platform engineering teams are and are not Start the process of adopting platform engineering within your organization Discover what it takes to become a product manager for a platform team Understand the challenges that emerge when you scale platforms Automate processes and self-service infrastructure to speed development and improve developer experience Build out, hire, manage, and advocate for a platform team |
| cto vs vp of engineering: The Service-oriented Media Enterprise John Footen, Joey Faust, 2008 Service-Oriented Media Enterprise gives the reader both a business- and technical-level overview of the concepts of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) and how they relate to professional media systems and the problems facing modern media enterprises. It proposes the concept of a truly service-enabled, media-rich software architecture as a way to technically address the growing concerns of digital distribution, content security, parallel production, and the explosion of software standards and formats. This architecture provides the media enterprise with th. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: 97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know Tobias Macey, 2021-06-11 Take advantage of today's sky-high demand for data engineers. With this in-depth book, current and aspiring engineers will learn powerful real-world best practices for managing data big and small. Contributors from notable companies including Twitter, Google, Stitch Fix, Microsoft, Capital One, and LinkedIn share their experiences and lessons learned for overcoming a variety of specific and often nagging challenges. Edited by Tobias Macey, host of the popular Data Engineering Podcast, this book presents 97 concise and useful tips for cleaning, prepping, wrangling, storing, processing, and ingesting data. Data engineers, data architects, data team managers, data scientists, machine learning engineers, and software engineers will greatly benefit from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Topics include: The Importance of Data Lineage - Julien Le Dem Data Security for Data Engineers - Katharine Jarmul The Two Types of Data Engineering and Data Engineers - Jesse Anderson Six Dimensions for Picking an Analytical Data Warehouse - Gleb Mezhanskiy The End of ETL as We Know It - Paul Singman Building a Career as a Data Engineer - Vijay Kiran Modern Metadata for the Modern Data Stack - Prukalpa Sankar Your Data Tests Failed! Now What? - Sam Bail |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Buddha in Testing Pradeep Soundararajan, 2020-02-12 A tester’s mind is never at rest. It is constantly searching, over populated with information, and continually discovering changes to context. A tester at work is interacting with plenty of people who don’t understand testing, pretend to understand or have conflicting ideas of testing. A combination of all this creates restlessness in a tester’s mind. A restless mind ends up with fragmented learning and chaos. This impacts the quality of life itself. Is this book for you? |
| cto vs vp of engineering: The Senior Software Engineer David Bryant Copeland, 2013-07-01 11 simple practices a software engineer can apply to be more a more effective contributor and more productive team member. Included are personal processes for fixing bugs and implementing new features, tips for writing, interviewing, and time management, as well as guides for bootstrapping new projects, making technical arguments, and leading a team. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Future State 2025 Hunter Muller, 2020-08-21 Identify the best technology investments and implement them rapidly Future State 2025: How Top Technology Executives Disrupt and Drive Success in the Digital Economy gives CIOs an essential playbook for learning how to implement and sustain innovation and invention. Drawing on the experiences of many of the world’s leading CIOs, the book reveals the strategies and techniques they used to put in place the newest techniques and technologies. Since the rise of the digital economy, the role of the CIO has expanded the responsibilities of the IT team function. The new norm is continuous innovation; CIOs must deliver or perish. This book offers a guide for selecting and implementing the right technology that is so essential for success in the hyper-competitive marketplace. This vital resource offers a guide to tech investments including: Artificial Intelligence and advanced cyber security Robotics and advanced networks including Mesh, Edge and Hybrid Cloud Virtual Reality and smart cities Autonomous transportation, logistics and rapid prototyping, and digital twin Future State 2025: How Top Technology Executives Disrupt and Drive Success in the Digital Economy is written to help identify the best technology investments and move forward with rapid implementations of new tech and stay ahead of the competition. |
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| cto vs vp of engineering: Network World , 2003-12-22 For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce. |
| cto vs vp of engineering: Saying No to Jugaad T N Hari, M S Subramanian, 2019-10-07 Saying No to Jugaad is a riveting account of how the start-up ecosystem in India evolved rapidly in the last 10 years. Ushering in a new turn in the country's economy that shook up existing ways of doing business, start-ups brought together investors and a rare breed of entrepreneurs to create a set of unicorns focused, for the first time, on solving the country's problems. The book busts some of the common myths around e-commerce businesses and describes the evolution of grocery as the mother of all categories in this sector. It also is the story of how start-ups go through different distinct stages as they evolve and mature. The courage needed to hold your ground when the world seems to have a contrarian view, the relentless focus on customer centricity and the emphasis on foundation-building are illustrated through lucid and stirring stories. Entertaining and anecdotal, the book is not a panegyric about the founders or the company but is the story of real people and a real company with real flaws but also several great ideas and moments. Saying No to Jugaad vividly captures the vision, culture and commitment to values which has made Bigbasket one of India's most successful start-ups. |
CTO和CIO的职能区别具体是什么？ - 知乎
国内cto更偏重于研发管理，cto要负责把所有同开发相关的资源都管理起来，按时完成项目。 另一方面，就是类似总工的角色，作为技术方面的权威，要对公司下一步的技术发展方向进行一些研究、探讨，做出判断并帮助CEO做出决策。
CTO的职责是什么？ - 知乎
同时，CTO也兼任Operation Manager的角色，即负责推动和整合技术的实施。在这种情况下，通常CTO是公司的联合创始人，或者是第一个被雇佣的员工。 例如大家熟悉的：亚马逊 CTO Werner Vogels，是云计算领域的领军人物，以及亚马 …
你们公司的 CTO（技术总监）平时都在做些什么？ - 知乎
这几年来，cto也兼任我们公司足球队队长，召集踢球，最近我们都年过40了，膝盖，发量，身体也开始纷纷出了问题，带动公司中年人坚持锻炼，甚至是发起锻炼内卷，也变成他的工作。
程序员去创业公司做 CTO，需要注意什么？ - 知乎
一、从大公司去创业公司做 cto，薪资收益是涨是跌？ 从大公司去创业公司做 CTO，薪资不一定会上涨很多，甚至不乏愿意降薪做 CTO 的工程师。 在 BAT 等巨头做一名资深工程师的薪酬，一般情况下不会低于创业公司，因为互联网巨头比创业公司有钱多了。
CTO和CIO的职能区别具体是什么？ - 知乎
cto负责的是企业的核心技术，比如制造型企业的生产技术。 并不是每一个企业都会设立 CTO .”Forrester 高级分析师曹宇钦认为，“ CIO 的职责在于提供最符合企业现状和未来发展的信息技术，包括要实现数据分 …
CTO和CIO的职能区别具体是什么？ - 知乎
国内cto更偏重于研发管理，cto要负责把所有同开发相关的资源都管理起来，按时完成项目。 另一方面，就是类似总工的角色，作为技术方面的权威，要对公司下一步的技术发展方向进行一些研究、探讨，做出判断并帮 …
CTO的职责是什么？ - 知乎
同时，CTO也兼任Operation Manager的角色，即负责推动和整合技术的实施。在这种情况下，通常CTO是公司的联合创始人，或者是第一个被雇佣的员工。 例如大家熟悉的：亚马逊 CTO Werner Vogels，是云计算领域 …
你们公司的 CTO（技术总监）平时都在做些什么？ - 知乎
这几年来，cto也兼任我们公司足球队队长，召集踢球，最近我们都年过40了，膝盖，发量，身体也开始纷纷出了问题，带动公司中年人坚持锻炼，甚至是发起锻炼内卷，也变成他的 …
程序员去创业公司做 CTO，需要注意什么？ - 知乎
一、从大公司去创业公司做 cto，薪资收益是涨是跌？ 从大公司去创业公司做 CTO，薪资不一定会上涨很多，甚至不乏愿意降薪做 CTO 的工程师。 在 BAT 等巨头做一名资深工程师的薪酬，一般情况下不会低于创业公司，因 …
CTO和CIO的职能区别具体是什么？ - 知乎
cto负责的是企业的核心技术，比如制造型企业的生产技术。 并不是每一个企业都会设立 CTO .”Forrester 高级分析师曹宇钦认为，“ CIO 的职责在于提供最符合企业现状和未来发展的信息技术，包括要实现数据分析的能力。
