For Founders

For CEOs /Founders at Seed and Series A who has no to little technology background. 

  • You aim to enhance communication with your CTOs and technology teams.
  • You seek to make technology integration a core component of your business strategy.
  • You strive to bridge the gap between business and technology, ensuring that your technology organization scales in tandem with your business.
  • You are determined to evolve your engineering teams from cost centers to pivotal drivers of value.
  • You aspire to synchronize your technology advancements with your fundraising objectives, ensuring strategic financial growth.
  • You hope to optimize how your product team can help you bridge the gap, with a focus on customer-centricity and avoiding common business goal pitfalls.

TOPIC WE COVER ON THE DAY

Agenda

  • Understanding the diverse roles in an engineering team, from small to large groups, and how they’re shaped by principles like Conway’s Law.
  • Learning what to expect from a CTO/engineering lead at different stages of a business’s lifecycle.
  • Acquiring insights into the engineering process, emphasizing the importance of feedback loops and continuous improvement strategies.
  • Grasping the nuances of making critical technology decisions, including the necessary tradeoffs.
  • Understanding of product management, including its roles and responsibilities within an organization.
  • Using the product team to strategically align the technology org. with overarching business goals, ensuring coherence and synergy.
  • How to truly put your customer needs at the center by effectively integrating customer feedback.
  • Addressing the unique challenges and perspectives of non-founders in product management roles, providing insights for diverse professional backgrounds, and maximizing the output and efficiency of a product team.
  • Learning how an engineering team can be measured and identifying the signs of a team that is having trouble.
  • Understanding the balance between moving fast and retaining high-quality software.
  • Exploring strategic decision-making in engineering and gaining insights into leveraging frameworks like DORA and SPACE for effective team evaluation.
  • Managing the talent lifecycle for engineers.
  • Aligning engineering objectives with broader business goals for strategic synergy.
  • Understanding the cross-functional impact of engineering and its application in various organizational areas.
  • Developing financial fluency in modeling the costs associated with engineering teams, including operational expenses and investment strategies.
  • Focusing on aligning team dynamics and operations with the company’s overarching vision and strategic goals.
  • Promoting transparency and effective communication within the engineering team to facilitate the right conversations at the right times.
  • Structuring team dynamics and cadences to reflect and support the company’s vision and operational strategy.

Want To Know More?

We are happy to jump on a call to chat more about this event! Please let us know a bit about you and we can go from there.