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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Project Management

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product.

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What Is Upskilling & How to Build an Upskilling Program

Teamweek

Employees can upskill themselves by attending courses, grabbing certifications, testing out their skills in practice, and finding a mentor. Sign up for a course Coursera and Udemy are just two examples of platforms with online courses where you can equip yourself with new skills for free or for a fraction of the price of a university course.

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How Savvy PMOs Drive Actionable Insights with Portfolio Dashboards

Planview

In Part 1 of this blog series, we covered the first three of the six visibility areas PMOs should develop on their way to becoming a more strategic advisor to the business: Project Status and Health: Keep projects on track. They can keep an eye on progress and make course corrections as needed.

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9 Best Practices for Recruiting Developers With Skills Tests

Teamweek

When hiring developers, you need to be on the lookout for a combination of hard, technical , and soft skills that will add value to your company. That’s where the skills-first hiring process comes in. Hiring developers gets easier when you modernize your recruitment process.

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5 Easy Steps to Keep Your Engineers Engaged

Wrike

It takes an incredible amount of effort, time, and money to hire a new engineer. There is a study that looked at the average cost of hiring a new developer in U.S. Managers are unlikely to agree to spend half of their working (and therefore paid) time on something like porting Doom to a pager from the early 2000s.

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Guru Gathering 2022: A look into our team retreat in Cape Town

Resource Guru

Well, as it so happens, one of our founders, Andrew, is from South Africa, as is our CTO, Kevin. Say no more, this year it was time to bring the gurus “home.”. This was the very first opportunity for everyone to sit down together and share a meal – and a few bottles of Pinotage, of course, South Africa’s signature grape variety.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

– [Mike] Oh, yeah, of course. And what was fascinating about, and really sort of formed, solidified some of my way of thinking about these things, in some cases, those constraints, as we would identify them, they would be identified as explicit contracts between systems. So we needed, and of course, this is a balance.

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