I‘m a technical exec and most of the advice rings true. Somewhere the translation from technical goals to business goals has to happen. Good leads will help with that and good engineers will come prepared
> Many CTOs, like me, have a strong engineering background, and so I will understand some of the requests you make without needing further explanation.
Just don't work for non-technical people, problem solved. They're usually less successful anyways
I‘m a technical exec and most of the advice rings true. Somewhere the translation from technical goals to business goals has to happen. Good leads will help with that and good engineers will come prepared
> Somewhere the translation from technical goals to business goals has to happen.
Should it not be the other way around?
Not if you're dogfooding. Technical goal: Add Redis. Business case: Quick search is slow. make it fast.
If you’re a CTO who needs and engineering translator then maybe you’re the wrong person for the role.
From TFA:
> Many CTOs, like me, have a strong engineering background, and so I will understand some of the requests you make without needing further explanation.
Amen
I was expecting this to be a transformer model fine-tuned to translate engineering to exec speak.
how hard could that really be to implement
Non-paywalled version: https://www.annashipman.co.uk/jfdi/engineer-exec-translation...