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
"Indispensable CTO"
Deliver High Impact Business Outcomes
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
"Sharper CTO"
Sharpen Your CTO Skills
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"Indispensable CTO"
Deliver High Impact Business Outcomes
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
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
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
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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