Technology Leadership

Topics

• Technology Mentoring
• Setting up standards
• Working on architecture
• Being a “filter” in front of the team from the stakeholders and the board and any dispersion

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

• Long term technology Strategy
• Choosing main Technologies
• Leading Innovation
• Coordinating suppliers
• Integrating tech with business needs

Involvement balance

• Between full autonomy vs 100% control

Architectural Drivers

Always quantify drivers - so that there is one single goal.

Types of drivers

• Functional requirements
• Quality requirements (security, scalability)
• Limitations (time, money, tech)

Each driver should have it’s metrics - and should be analysed against it.

Concepts

• DevOps - culture for cooperation between Development and Operations and bringing together the code
• CI/CD - tests and deployment automation, bringing value securely and quickly