Chief technology officers need to keep their sleeves rolled up and maintain their coding skills to better challenge their teams of developers.
Many chief technology officers study technology, consider different architectures and challenge their team to deliver products and services. The problem with this approach is that many CTOs today no longer maintain application development proficiencies.
The CTO is often at the mercy of many differing opinions within their organization without the important understanding, in some level of depth, the challenges, capabilities or even limitations that certain platforms present.
Worse yet, when a CTO completely relies on the advice of his or her engineers, that advice may simply be based on the preexisting comfort levels of the designers, programmers and architects.
When you’re consistently taking the word of others and haven’t maintained enough skill to perform basic discovery for yourself, you, as a CTO, are significantly diluting the power you have in driving true digital transformation for your company.
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Many chief technology officers study technology, consider different architectures and challenge their team to deliver products and services. The problem with this approach is that many CTOs today no longer maintain application development proficiencies.
The CTO is often at the mercy of many differing opinions within their organization without the important understanding, in some level of depth, the challenges, capabilities or even limitations that certain platforms present.
Worse yet, when a CTO completely relies on the advice of his or her engineers, that advice may simply be based on the preexisting comfort levels of the designers, programmers and architects.
When you’re consistently taking the word of others and haven’t maintained enough skill to perform basic discovery for yourself, you, as a CTO, are significantly diluting the power you have in driving true digital transformation for your company.
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