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The CTO Role

  • Chief Technology Officer Job Description: What Does a CTO Do? - by Roger Jin. Takeaway: how to put the "chief" in CTO. "A great CTO should be ready to delegate, while also being comfortable enough to work on the frontline, coding alongside their fellow developers. Furthermore, they will be required to be even more flexible if they’re working in a startup."

  • CTO Think (podcast) - by Don Vandemark and Randy Burgess. Takeaway: two ex-CTOs talk about tech decision-making, product development and leadership.

  • The Five Flavors of Being a CTO - by Koan CEO Matt Tucker. Takeaway: The five types include "(External) Evangelist," a visionary/spokesperson for the technology; "(External) Super Sales Engineer," a charismatic, customer-focused spokesperson; "(Internal) Super Engineer," a coding virtuoso; "(Internal) People Leader," who manages and recruits like a VP Engineering (this is antipattern); and "(Internal) Innovator/Disruptor," who's "next big thing”-oriented.

  • How My Role as CTO Has Changed as We've Grown to 100 Engineers - by Edward Kim. Takeaway: Kim describes the evolution of his role at different stages of the company's growth, in a relatable and honest way.

  • How to Identify and Address CTO Smells: Process - by Andy Skipper. Takeaway: "Smells" include poor hiring, the inability to frame technology challenges against business challenges, a lack of succession planning and/or technical vision and/or belief, insufficient focus on quality, and an inability to manage upwards or sideways.

  • Maintaining Confidence While Scaling an Engineering Team - by Matt Aimonetti. Takeaway: Set expectations and put together an evaluation framework; and measure and monitory velocity, quality and organizational maturity.

  • Mastering Sales as a CTO - by Joseph Jude. Takeaway: Most careers turn into sales jobs when you get senior enough. For an IT services company, there is none better suited to build trust in the minds of prospects than a chief technology officer. A CTO can follow a structured approach to handle sales calls. The structure could be: Pre-call preparation, on-call performance, and retro (post-call and post-closure).