Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 14, 2013
These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2017
You’re not cut out for engineering. What metrics will be used to determine how well your unit is doing at embracing learning and development, and how will that in turn affect your review? When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. Work out plans together.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 26, 2015
Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? Six selected insights are presented here, tempered with our own experience in many years of consulting with global engineering initiatives.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 4, 2018
Maximize engineering productivity. Engineers love continuous delivery environments because they can immediately see how their work adds value to the organization. When new CTO Prakash Khot arrived from Salesforce, he shifted the company towards continuous delivery, testing changes more frequently and on smaller audiences.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 14, 2016
One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. In this sense it is similar to the roving CTO but focused more on the depth and effectiveness of the agile talent network. ” Similar in some respects to the CTO role is the role of the technical “chief.”
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 1, 2018
These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. These requirements were put into a ticket queue as tasks for the next available engineer to start working on. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile.
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