Engineering strategy for first time technical leads and CTOs
Engineering strategy for first time technical leads and CTOs
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Get practical guidance on building an engineering strategy by learning how to foster better communication, triage, and delegate activities.
Engineering strategy for first time technical leads and CTOs
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Get practical guidance on building an engineering strategy by learning how to foster better communication, triage, and delegate activities.
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Hosted by
Thomas Riboulet
Consultant Staff Engineer Ex Lyst, FinalCAD
Course overview
Build your first engineering strategy
Becoming a technical leader or Chief Technical Officer (especially a de facto one) is not easy. Many challenges arise one after the other.
This course aims to prevent you from panicking or losing sight of what matters by giving you a base foundation you can build upon.
This is for
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the de facto company tech lead because you are engineer #001
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a first-time CTO in a just market-fitted start-up.
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a senior engineer aspiring to greater roles
Key outcomes
Develop a common vocabulary
There is no cohesion if there is no communication and no communication is truly possible without a common vocabulary.
We will look at how to develop common vocabularies within the engineering team but also with other teams in the company.
Stop getting swamped by repetitive tasks
To be able to do big things you need your hands free of the small ones.
We will see together what can be done to improve your team's life by simply removing repetitive tasks, a.k.a. toil.
Stop missing failures
Releasing code changes to production isn't the end of the day for an engineering team.
We will see why and how to monitor key performance metrics to avoid having failures slip by unoticed.
Learn to zoom in and out
What is vital as a technical leader is to have an ability to keep things in perspective regarding the team, product, and company.
You will learn to review different objectives from different angles to keep things in perspective and avoid tunnel vision.
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Meet your instructor
Thomas Riboulet
Consultant Staff Engineer
Having led teams in startups in two countries (France and UK), Thomas has a broad experience across the stack from product to cloud hosting and tooling.
A firm believer in a craftmanship approach Thomas likes sharing his experience and supporting other engineers in their journey of building great teams and products.
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Course syllabus
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Align the team with a common language
Building a ubiquitous language in the team is fundamental to making things smoother and faster.
We will go through several use cases and work on different ways to build and settle such a language in a team.
- Remembering engineering solves problems
- Learning about bounded contexts and vocabularies
- Establishing continuous improvement loops
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Know what is failing
We will review the importance of having good infrastructure and product metrics at hand all the time.
We will go through ways to introduce them and use them in your day-to-day decision tree:
- Not letting exceptions be silent
- Choosing and keeping an eye on performance indicators
- Introducing review sessions
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Sort out toil, emergency & strategy
A lot will land on your plate. Deciding what needs attention quickly is key to avoiding having too much to handle.
- Differentiating toil (repetitive tasks), emergencies, and regular work
- Knowing how to handle emergencies and communicate about them
- Differentiating tactical, operational, and strategic tasks
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.. and back again
Mastery is a game of perseverance and repetition into finer and finer details.
- Starting small and iterating
- Avoiding tunnel vision and silos
- Looking into other methodologies
Course schedule
4-6 hours per week
Tuesdays & Thursdays
10:00 - 11:00 CEST (UTC+2)
A 45 to 60 minutes event where we cover one module through different formats.
Mondays & Wednesdays (optional)
14:00 - 15:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Office hours via a group chat. This is helpful to go through some details of the current module.
Weekly projects
2 hours per week
As the course is quickly applicable to your day to day work, it includes a strong encouragement to do so through custom weekly projects.
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Learning is better with cohorts
Active learning, not passive watching
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
Async too !
While a big part of the course is relying on synchronous workshops you can also rely on asynchronous messaging to interact with the teacher and your cohort's peers.
Questions? Email us for answers and more details about the class. We'd be happy to hear from you.
Questions? Email us for answers and more details about the class. We'd be happy to hear from you.