Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2017
You’re not cut out for engineering. Hire to train. When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. I made him the CTO’s protégé, and had the CTO spend time teaching and evaluating him. You’re not a data scientist.
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. Company Fit.
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Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Training Leadership can be taught, though it’s not easy or cheap. Beyond these “soft” skills, we need to encourage what Toyota calls “Towering Technical Competence”: certainly in the technical areas of data, networks, development processes and such, but also in customer understanding, testing, process engineering, and partner negotiations.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 24, 2018
Companies that lacked experience with lean methodologies had to be trained to operate as agile teams in order to define a specific use case for the technology. One CTO we spoke to tells a story about an AI project that “hit the wall” despite a sequence of green lights. Leaders must foster a culture of learning.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 17, 2015
In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method. .”
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