A CTO’s Primer to Value Flow, Continuous Stewardship and Decoupling in Time Lead a more humane and effective organisation with inspiration from Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies. Inspired by system design?, cybernetics? and neuroscience ?, Team Topologies allows CTOs to structure their teams in a more humane way that reduces cognitive load ? while increasing user value ?. Listen to find out: Value Flow?: What, why and how to find it Team Topologies?: The 3 team types,1 grouping, and 3 interaction modes Why Continuous Stewardship ? is important in software Decoupling? in Time: Amaz ..read more

SLIs,SLOs, SLAs - The WHY, WHAT, and HOW Embrace the Site Reliability Mindset with Alex Ewerlöf, Sr. Staff Engineer @ Volvo Cars ? and SRE thought leader. Understand how the different aspects of site reliability work together ? and when you need a DevOps vs. Platform Team vs. SRE. Find out how to set your own Service Level Indicators (SLI), Service Level Objectives (SLO), and Service Level Agreements (SLA), as laid out by the creator of the Service Level Calculator. Listen to find out: SRE ? vs. DevOps ⚒️ vs. Platform Engineering?️ Service Level 101: How to set SLIs?, SLOs ?and SLAs ? Washing ..read more

Leadership Unlearnings, Metrics, Mindshifts and Communication Let’s become better Multipliers ✖️ in this CTO Podcast featuring Pat Kua, former CTO of N26 who by popular request now helps CTOs Level Up themselves and their teams. As a sought-after expert in helping ICs transition to leadership roles, Pat shares leadership gems with CTOs. Listen to find out: Why you should fly high ?️and dive deep ? Why even ICs need leadership skills ?‍? Maker⚒️ to Multiplier?️: What you need to unlearn when you move into management. How to communicate: CRY Principle, Translate into Foreign Tongue ?.. And TCP ..read more

Radical Transparency in Salaries, Decisions, and People Discover the power of radical transparency? with Charles Gorintin, CTO of Alan (a French InsurTech) and founding force behind Mistral. He may work in a regulated space, but there is nothing typical about Alan’s setup when it comes to internal matters. Public Salary Framework ✅Searchable Board Meetings ✅4 Managers for 90 FTE✅ Listen to find out: Why the Manager Role is split into Leads?‍? and Coaches ? How Transparent Compensation ?works with public Salary Levels and Performance Reviews How he hires ?: talent density, culture add and more ..read more

Cybersecurity for CTOs in 2024 Let’s hack cybersecurity in 2024 with Melanie Rieback, Co-founder & CEO of Radically Open Security, the world’s first not-for-profit cybersecurity consultancy with a focus on PenTesting?. Melanie is on a mission to fix cybersecurity consulting by putting people before profits and empowering internal teams “how to fish” ?. Tune in to hear about the current cybersecurity landscape from the person who not only authored a viral RFID paper (“Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus?”), but also PenTested Tor, Homebrew and Greenpeace. Listen to find out: What is ..read more

Leveraging Your Tech Knowledge as CTO: Staying Hands-On and Readying for IPO Embrace the technical side ? of the CTO role with Allan Leinwand, CTO of Webflow ?️ who has combined technical know-how with great products on every layer of the OSI Model: from setting up HP’s first ethernet, CISCO’s early networks, building the world’s first CDN at Digital Island, and continuing up the stack to enterprise cloud ☁️ (ServiceNow), social gaming​​ ? (zynga), communications ? (Slack), eCommerce ? (Shopify) and now webdesign ?(Webflow). Listen to find out; Why deep technical knowledge ? allows better pro ..read more

Self Management for CTOs and other Managers Get real with Johanna Rothman, whom they don’t call the Pragmatic Manager for nothing. You will love her straight-talking approach to management. After almost 40 years in management, she can boil down things to sharp principles that will make you either hand pump?, shoot the link to your buddy?… or smile sheepishly?. Yip, she got you. (Don’t worry, we won’t judge. Patterns exist because everyone does them. Which is why we need people who have been around the block to call us out ?on them). Listen to find out: Why you need to manage yourself to bette ..read more

Autonomy, Motivation and Purpose Empower your team with the right type of autonomy ? as we define the balance in this CTO podcast with Andy Walker, who has years of experience leadings teams at Skyscanner and Google. After 30 years in tech, Andy finally has the time to share what his hard won insights about tech leadership. You will enjoy his nuanced approach to autonomous teams, team size and work-life balance. Listen to find out: Why the more senior you are, the less decisions you should make ? How to give the right amount of autonomy by career stage ?‍? (and how to have the right conversati ..read more

Product Discovery for Engineers (and CTOs) Invest your engineering resources better by truly understanding the core problem your product needs to solve with this CTO podcast featuring Bob Moesta, co-architect of the Jobs to be Done Theory, who has developed and launched over 3500 products. As an engineer-turned-product-guru, Bob’s explanation of Product Discovery will delight your nerd brain ? (complete with references to set theory, push-pull forces, and the problem space) while being super practical ?about the challenges CTOs are dealing with (like scope creep and trade offs). Listen to find ..read more

CTOs Guide to Product Strategy and ProductOps Craft the ideal product strategy in this CTO podcast episode with Mellisa Perri, author of “Escaping the Build Trap” and “Product Operations”.Find out how to become truly product-led: from your strategy to your metrics to your tooling. Listen to find out: How to balance qualitative ? and quantitative data ? in product Were the mass layoffs caused by overhiring? ?Is it a natural part of growth or can companies avoid over scaling? What does the ideal product strategy ?look like? What is ProductOps⚙️ and why you need it + how to handle your fellow ex ..read more