Itzy Sabo

Itzy Sabo

Maximise Your CTO Impact!

You lead engineering at a growing SaaS company, and you deliver technically excellent, high quality software.Now is the time to up your game, and deliver high impact business outcomes that will make you indispensable.

"Indispensable CTO"

Deliver High Impact Business Outcomes

You'll be able to recalibrate your tech department, and optimise it to produce business value that impacts the right metrics.We'll meet for a series of weekly sessions to discuss the topics below. We'll figure out how to customise and adapt them to your company's specific situation.Are you an expert operator of a highly efficient "feature factory"? — If so, this is for you!As a result of these sessions, expect to be able to achieve these results:

  • Reposition your department as a Profit Centre, rather than be treated as a Cost Centre.

  • Demonstrate your department's direct contribution to achieving the company's business goals.

  • Drastically reduce the effort your department is asked to waste on features that have questionable business value.

... by learning how to operate more strategically and by learning how to improve your tactical execution.

"Sharper CTO"

Sharpen Your CTO Skills

You'll sharpen up your decision-making abilities, leadership skills, deepen your collaboration with other executives, improve processes in your department, and optimise it for scaling up.We'll meet for a series of weekly sessions in which we'll discuss and review and situations that you're experiencing, and find solutions for challenges that you're facing.If you don't have a true peer you can discuss ideas with or sanity-check decisions with — this will be ideal.

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Itzy's Bio

Who is Itzy Sabo?

I'm a business oriented software CTO and executive leader with experience across a broad range of industries (cyber, fintech, gaming, productivity), business models (B2B, B2C, B2B2C SaaS) and company growth stages.I have built engineering organisations from scratch, managed departments up to 120 people in size, and learnt how to execute hyper-growth, mergers, acquisitions and spinoffs, as well as reorganisations and downsizing.I have also successfully prepared organisations for audits, certification and licensing in regulated industries.At Intel's invitation, I recently mentored 10 CTOs of Intel’s “Ignite” deep-tech startup incubator programme in Europe, on the topic of Management & Leadership.I write a newsletter on engineering management topics, and post regularly on LinkedIn.

Publications

CTO Logic Newsletter

How I align tech initiatives to business goals by Itzy Sabo

A CTO's job is to align tech strategy with the company's business strategy. The most valuable part of my job is helping clients achieve this. This is how I do it.

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I have occasional availability for unique projects, either as a Fractional CTO or as a troubleshooter. Get in touch and let me know your situation.

"Indispensable CTO"

Deliver High Impact Business Outcomes

You'll be able to recalibrate your tech department, and optimise it to produce business value that impacts the right metrics.We'll meet for a series of weekly sessions to discuss the topics below. We'll figure out how to customise and adapt them to your company's specific situation.Are you an expert operator of a highly efficient "feature factory"? — If so, this is for you!As a result of these sessions, expect to be able to achieve these results:

  • Reposition your department as a Profit Centre, rather than be treated as a Cost Centre.

  • Identify the right things to work on in order to drive impactful business outcomes and to improve meaningful metrics.

  • Demonstrate your department's direct contribution to achieving the company's business goals.

  • Drastically reduce the effort your department is asked to waste on features that have questionable business value.

  • Measure and improve your department's efficiency in terms of business value rather than "velocity".

... by learning how to operate more strategically:

  • Translate business goals into strategies, and finally into tech initiatives.

  • Refocus on impact, business value and outcomes rather than output — plan and prioritise based on anticipated impact rather than decibels (whoever shouts loudest).

  • Change perspective to budgeting effort (fixed timeline) rather than estimating timelines (prone to overruns).

... and by learning how to improve your tactical execution:

  • Learn how to use "business impact categories" when planning your iterations to ensure that you balance competing business needs appropriately.

  • Acquire the capability to measure leading and lagging indicators.

  • Adapt your issue tracker (e.g., JIRA) to factor in expected impact or outcomes, and to track success afterwards, in order to develop insights and readjust your process.

  • Slice stories ruthlessly but effectively for making constant progress.

What it Includes:

  • A weekly 90 minute session for 1 person, for a duration of 3 months.

  • Email support in between sessions.

"Sharper CTO"

Sharpen Your CTO Skills

You'll sharpen up your decision-making abilities, leadership skills, deepen your collaboration with other executives, improve processes in your department, and optimise it for scaling up.We'll meet for a series of weekly sessions in which we'll discuss and review and situations that you're experiencing, and find solutions for challenges that you're facing.If you don't have a true peer you can discuss ideas with or sanity-check decisions with — this will be ideal.As a result of these sessions, expect to be able to improve:

  • Decisions — improve the quality of your decisions, the speed with which you make them, and your confidence in them.

  • Alignment — align better with the CEO and other department heads by deepening your understanding of what they are trying to achieve, and by representing your department optimally.

  • Scale Up — enable your department to scale up smoothly by instituting necessary processes and optimising existing ones, for maximum internal empowerment and minimum bureaucracy.

  • Leadership — improve your abilities and confidence as a leader vs. a manager of your department and of the company.

  • Accountability — I will be your accountability partner, and help you uncover the root cause of why you are maybe not making progress in some directions.

What it Includes:

  • A weekly 1 hour session for 1 person, for a duration of 3 months.

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