SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

There was a lot of passion in the room last week when I presented Working with Developers at the Stubbs Precellerator. I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. But my developers want to go into way too much detail. In fact, they often don’t really understand the business.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? Did they have a Weak Development Team ?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Are you a non-technical startup founder who’s about to go have a conversation with a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) or Technical advisory type person? Maybe you are going for a reality check on your current situation - wondering if you have a Weak Development Team or a Startup Founder Developer Gap.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

There's an old adage in software development that I refer to all the time: The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time. And I use it all the time now when I get the kind of message that I received: I'm looking for a web developer to continue work on my website. The funds have been used up on the existing development.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 23, 2010

I’ve come to realize that I have lots of posts around startup software development scattered around in different posts. How to Work With a Contract Web Developer How To Bootstrap Your Startup Thought it would be good to capture them in one spot and also include links to related posts from other sources.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Upon completing graduate school, he began working as investment banker at Goldman Sachs and then as a financial advisor for pro athletes for NBA stars Chris Paul and Stephen Curry as well as Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps and Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman. . How do I do this?’ ” . Image Credits: Left to right: Michael Haddix Jr. (co-founder

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2022

IT organizations are increasingly shifting from project-based organizational structures to product-based methodologies , which involve cross-functional teams. We spoke to a host of experts, including product managers and those who supervise, hire, and mentor them, about what you should be looking for if you’re hiring a new PM for your team.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? The "Questions" post is probably the most important.

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CIO

MAY 18, 2023

For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

I'm going to be looking at aspects like: Things to consider before building your MVP Features often overlooked when documenting an MVP for developers Understanding important metrics you want to measure Risks and challenges in developing an MVP. Have you Documented Your MVP for Your Developer s? What's going to go wrong?

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers. Or, the small crisis with engineering management. We’ve recently updated and reposted it.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Many of the women interviewed for this article were uncomfortable being named for fear of reprisal or stunted career development. “I Myself and a person I mentor both got told we were both diversity hires,” says a deputy digital director in public sector. You haven’t got what it takes. I’ve heard that directly.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When employees disengage from work — often called quiet quitting — it starts a ripple effect that can damage everything from their career trajectory to your team, company, and the global economy. Those lucky few find meaning in their work, feel connected to their team and organization, and feel proud of what they do. trillion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. And, told publicly for the first time, Siemiatkowski reveals how he once sought out PayPal co-founder Max Levchin as an advisor, only to learn a little later that he had started Affirm, one of Klarna’s most direct U.S.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2023

That’s why it’s important to know how to efficiently delegate tasks to carefully selected team members. DeVerter says he’s a strong proponent of the apprentice system, which teams junior team members with senior experts who will ensure all assigned work is up to par. A lack of clarity can lead to grave consequences.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Distributed teams. Highlights of his career include heading up engineering at New Relic as it grew from 3 developers to 330; growing Invision from 60 developers to 350 as its CTO; working on VisualAge Smalltalk at OTI (Object Technology International); and coordinating the open-source Eclipse developers at the Eclipse Organization.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

APRIL 2, 2020

Is your team running so smoothly that it hums? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Most teams already know which category they fall into, but the solution to a low-performing team isn’t always clear.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2020

Often considered a tech guru of the company or the smartest programmer in the room, the title of CTO alone indicates that the company is doing something big with technology. With this article, we’ll dip a toe into the field of the multiple responsibilities of an average CTO. The role of CTO. CTO’s tasks and responsibilities.

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CircleCI

MAY 21, 2020

In development. As software architects and developers we have control over some aspects of the environment we build and run software in. In order to evolve, our software needs to be easy and quick to release, and we need feedback about it’s appropriateness during development and while in production. In production.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

We would then develop a series of social media posts that focus on a particular topic related to either leading, followership or mentoring. I challenge the crowd to remember what it takes to lead, follow, and mentor and the impact it has on the organization. The common thread through this keynote? Individual ownership.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Distributed teams. Highlights of his career include heading up engineering at New Relic as it grew from 3 developers to 330; growing Invision from 60 developers to 350 as its CTO; working on VisualAge Smalltalk at OTI (Object Technology International); and coordinating the open-source Eclipse developers at the Eclipse Organization.

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MagmaLabs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Reading Time: 11 minutes Nowadays it is relatively easy to become a software developer, but being a truly professional one is not that simple. Learn here how to be the developer that every company and every client wants to have. Being a professional developer is crucial in the software industry. Context first.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Whole Team, Coaches. Whole Team. Second Edition cover. Cargo Cult Agile.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Her global IT organization comprises five business-segment CIOs, as well as shared services provided by the CISO, CTO, and the leader of enterprise business systems. Throughout my career at Textron, I have had many roles, spanning supply chain, manufacturing, integrated product teams, and working on helicopter programs.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Not Really At first you may be thinking that this is all bad news. The quality of the team, and overall financial health are equally important, as well as how your offering compares to competitors. A Beginner's Guide to Investors How to Speak the Language of Venture Capital That's an even tougher hurdle.

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Mobilunity

AUGUST 16, 2024

If you consider expanding the team, learn how hiring every extra talent helps you grow business value and profits. This guide helps you recognize the need for team growth and explains how to retain experts. Increased Workload Your team has been handling the growing workload for several weeks consecutively.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. And, told publicly for the first time, Siemiatkowski reveals how he once sought out PayPal co-founder Max Levchin as an advisor, only to learn a little later that he had started Affirm, one of Klarna’s most direct U.S.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

Leaders and managers both require skills that can be taught, and developing those employees from within the company can be the most timely and economically efficient way to do so. Developing leaders from within the organization. Katie is an executive at Buffer, a fully distributed team. We are a fully distributed team.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant. So, I guess I’m a bad expert on process.

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TechFides Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As a CIO for 25+ years he was the internal advisor to C-Level Executives of high growth entrepreneurial organizations. At CIO Suite, Kent’s team (2 resources) offers four core services: IT Solutions Health Check Fractional CIO Services (i.e. How is your level of engagement in commercial estate space from an IT standpoint?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The Good : I found only one bad session. mimes/role plays) to model power and then power in relationship to teams. After modeling each we were asked how to take power away from a person. After trying my one bad session I went to Rachel and Lizs next session: Top Ten Coaching Tips will be written up for InfoQ shortly.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

The practice of one on ones is important in connecting to a team. @6:44. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy-high performing software teams. And you’d be like, ouch, it sounds like it’s bad news, but it was really good news.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. How do I measure productivity? If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers. Not possible. Lets dig in.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

The practice of one on ones is important in connecting to a team. @6:44. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy-high performing software teams. And you’d be like, ouch, it sounds like it’s bad news, but it was really good news.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This makes understanding how to create good prompts, also known as prompt engineering , very important for your projects. Say you’re a CTO or software engineer in the hospitality industry, and you’re integrating a generative AI chatbot to answer staff queries about your hotel’s Property Management System (PMS).

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