Author: Jason
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5 Management Challenges For New Tech Leaders & Where Mentoring Helps
“as a new CTO I struggled with the jump from dev to management, especially at a time of growth and change at my company. It wasn’t always clear what that change needed to look like” These comments from one of our mentees is not untypical of the challenges faced, particularly by newly appointed CTOs and…
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Why Leadership Coaching Matters To Me
“Coaching isn’t therapy – it’s product development with you as the product” I started my career as many of us did, messing around at home with a PC, Mac or phone (my youth pre-dates the smartphone!) trying to understand how the operating systems worked and whether they could be tweaked. I experimented with the technologies of…
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What a CTO needs from their scrum master …
In my technology career, the movement from Waterfall (which should never have been adopted and is in the original paper as not being suitable for most software development) to Agile development of either Kanban or Scrum are the main processes adopted. Bags of time and effort has been spent on which method is better. It…
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Managing the career transition from techie to team lead
The CTO Academy community is not only growing and facilitating the career transition of thousands of tech leaders within the UK, it’s also gone global with customers and contributors from every corner of the world – Guatemala to Sydney, Bangalore to Sao Paulo. But despite a myriad of different countries, companies, roles and responsibilities there…
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Leadership Skills Training for Tech Leaders
Leadership doesn’t always come naturally to everyone, particularly for those people with a technical background. But picking up leadership skills is crucial if you’re going to have an impact at the senior level and with any significant management role. Whether you have firm ambitions to take a senior tech role or you’ve almost fallen into…
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What Does a CTO Do and How Does CTO’s Day Look Like?
As companies strive to stay ahead of the curve and embrace innovation, the CTO plays a pivotal role in shaping the technological direction of the organization. But what is that role? What does a CTO do on a day-to-day basis? To explain, we will delve into a typical day in the life of a CTO,…
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The Hiring Conundrum : Promote vs. Recruit
The business is going gangbusters. The team is starting to creak under increasing pressure. The CEO is demanding quick hires to plug the gaps. What to do? Recruit internally and know what you’re getting or, hire externally to find the right expertise but potentially disrupt team cohesion? Internal Promotion If you’re growing quickly, you will…
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What is the CTO Salary in the USA in 2023?
Do you know why some chief technology officers can drive very attractive salary and equity packages while others can’t? This post looks at the average CTO salary in the USA in 2023 across cities, states and organizations, examining the determining factors that affect the bottom line for tech leaders working in US companies. Just to…
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8 Steps to be effective in Board Meetings
Board meetings can be an intimidating environment even for those of us familiar with the arena. Who does what? Who are the key players? How can you increase your impact? But they also provide the CTO with a very visible opportunity to circulate updates, ideas and generate feedback from the key managers within your organisation.…
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What a CTO needs to consider, When choosing a technology stack
When I was a developer, I always wanted to use the latest language and framework. I would accept the foibles of the framework, just because it was new and cool. Spend hours setting it up, installing all the different components, writing a simple application and then deploying at the click of a button …. only…