Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering.

By lethain - 2021-03-03

Description

Whenever I transition to a new opportunity, I think about how to “start well.” How can I ramp up as effectively as possible? How do I balance the urge to “show value” immediately with making the right ...

Summary

If we had to create a short list of the top onboarding traps that new executives fall into, rushing to make changes before understanding the problem’s shape is undoubtedly the first.
Study how these work in your new organization.
Surprisingly few companies have a written technologystrategy, so start documenting what you learn about the implicit technology strategy into a document and share those notes back to the team – is this the technology strategy we want?

Topics

Management (0.45)
Machine_Learning (0.19)
Backend (0.12)

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