Vision, Strategy an Alignment — Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
- Part 1 Vision, Strategy an Alignment — Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
- Part 2The future of CTOs with AI — Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
Show Notes
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02:25Why Amazing CTO newsletter?Born out of over 40 plus years of experience in software development and strong opinions
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05:03The importance of having an opinion and sharing itIf you have an interest in something, youre likely to have an opinion about it, so feel free to air your views and contribute to public discussion Dont be reactionary or agreeable with whoever is the loudest.
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08:14Vision setting, strategy building, and alignmentA lot of the problems in startups and their technology departments is that they lack a vision and strategy. It is why developers on such teams struggle to build the right tech stack
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09:24As a CTO youre a leader. Where are you leading your team to?CTOs struggle to be leaders because they dont know where to lead people to
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09:54What is a good vision?The vision is self-motivating, self-evident, explanatory, so no explanation, no motivation, no evidence needs because the vision speaks for itself. The strategy is how to get there.
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11:36Whats in a strategy?The strategy should be something that helps people make decisions. If it's not helping people make the right decisions, then it's a bad strategy.
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12:54What do you do when youre not in charge of the vision and strategy?There is a business vision and a business strategy, a product vision and a product strategy, and then a tech vision and a tech strategy. The business vision, the product vision, and the tech vision need to be aligned.
Quotes
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"In startups with CTOs in technology departments, but also a broader area of startups, talk to many founders. And after some time, after some years, I thought the problems I see a lot of are because the companies do not have a vision and a strategy." - Stephan Schmidt
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"Something that comes up quite often with CTOs is that developers want to go from Angular One to react to Angular Two. That's one thing I see a lot of discussion about: should we have microservices or not? Or should we go to this cloud or that cloud? And a lot of this is happening because the company and, in this instance, the technology department don't have a vision or strategy." - Stephan Schmidt
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"The strategy should be something that helps people make decisions. If it's not helping people make the right decisions, then it's a bad strategy." - Stephan Schmidt
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"How I see it is that there is a business vision and a business strategy, a product vision and a product strategy, and then a tech vision and a tech strategy. As a CTO, you need the others, but you can create a tech strategy. For example, we want to create deep features with technology that wow people, and then a strategy is a way to get there." - Stephan Schmidt
- Part 1 Vision, Strategy an Alignment — Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
- Part 2The future of CTOs with AI — Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
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Part 1Vision, Strategy an Alignment — Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
There is a business vision and a business strategy, a product vision and a product strategy, and then a tech vision and a tech strategy. The business vision, the product vision, and the tech vision need to be aligned. What is your tech vision and strategy, and how do you create one? Find out more as Stephan Schmidt, CTO Coach at Amazing CTO, discusses vision, strategy, and alignment.
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Part 2The future of CTOs with AI — Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
More and more work will go into training models than programming, development teams are going to be leaner, and AI will not create software, it is the software. If you haven't started doing something with AI, you're too late for the game. How do you apply it to your business? Find out more as Stephan Schmidt, CTO Coach at Amazing CTO, discusses the future of CTOs with AI.
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