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

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.

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.