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Our testing lectures are amongst the most watched from our online course material and this week we spotted a report from our friends at CTO Universe that looks in further detail at the topic.
“Up to 80% of new products fail. The reality is harsh and the reasons why are endless. Perhaps the new product couldn’t oust a customer favorite. Maybe it looked great but was too hard to use. Or, despite being a superior product, the go-to-market strategy failed.
There’s always risk when building a new product, but you can hedge your bets by understanding exactly what your customers’ expectations truly are at every step of the development process”
Check out their report Testing at every stage of development for additional tips and real-world customer examples.
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The sweet spot for our Careers Team is helping match companies and candidates for senior tech roles but this week we had an unusual request from one technical start up founder, who needed help and advice on how to find and qualify a CEO.
For those of you who are founders or early hires then it might be a scenario for you in the future – having to recruit, perhaps for the first time, an external CEO hence an interesting article from Andreesson Horowitz that explores the challenge, particularly from a technical co-founders perspective.
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As tech leaders and managers we are accustomed to dealing with change as a constant, it comes with the territory. But even the most visionary amongst us are having to deal with an ever faster pace of disruptive change much of it super charged due to COVID.
Next Generation Enterprise is a live webinar Q&A series that will explore The Future of Work For Technology Leaders. Every month we invite guests from in and around the tech world to explore what the future of work could look like and how tech leaders might need to adapt.
For this first event, host Rameshwar Balanagu will be joined by Shail Khiyara who is Executive in Residence at AV8 Ventures and research fellow at HFS Research in Silicon Valley. He is also a board member at IQPC, an Artificial intelligence & Intelligent Automation Network with more than one million members. With 20 years C-suite experience in CMO roles, he brings some fascinating insight into the potential fusion of elements of the CMO and CTO roles.
This will be a Live Webinar Q&A and we’d love you get involved with some questions for host and guest.
Date: Weds 11th November 2020.
Midday CT
1800 GMT
1900 CET
Find out more and register here.
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90 Things You Need To Know To Become an Effective CTO
In this post, Jason Noble, Academy’s Chief Technology Officer, explains the design of highly relevant CTO KPIs and shows you how to a) track them and, more importantly, b) use them to improve performance. Now, the odds are that you’re either a CTO in a start-up or fast-growing company or soon to become one. That […]
Price’s law (competence is linear, incompetence is exponential) pertains to the relationship between the literature on a subject and the number of authors in the subject area, stating that half of the publications come from the square root of all contributors. If 100 papers are written by 25 authors, five authors will have contributed 50 […]
I’ve been asked to write a short piece on the impact of confidence in leadership. 1st, how do I keep it short? 2nd, which angle do I start with for this many tentacled topic? Because whether we talk about true confidence, projection, self-doubt and/or the ever present Imposter syndrome, how we deal with these issues […]
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