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NEWSFLASH: Your CEO Doesn’t Give a Flying Fortran About Velocity
If you’re a VP of Engineering who proudly shows improving Velocity and related metrics to your CEO, watch out! Your CEO probably doesn’t know what she is signing up for and certainly doesn’t care about actual story points or Velocity, so showing these to her is only decreasing her trust in your ability to do the job.
Technical Leaders! Drive the Roadmap So You Don’t Get Run Over
As an engineering leader you have an essential role to play in roadmap and product planning. Co-founder Phil Braden shares why engineering leadership should be involved for the good of the company.
How Technical Leaders Should Prepare for Budget Planning
Many companies have already begun the process of building next year’s budget. If you are a technical or engineering leader, here’s what you should be thinking about.
Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late to Prepare for Technical Due Diligence
You never know when an investment or acquisition offer might happen, so it’s best to be prepared! What are the key things you should be thinking about as a technical or engineering leader of your company?
R&D Tax Credits: How You Can Save Your Company Big Money
Cost capitalization and R&D tax credits may not traditionally fit into the role of CTO or VP of engineering, but they can provide big benefits to your company. It’s important to work with your finance team or CFO to understand if they apply and how you can help.
What is Engineering Management? An interview with Jellyfish CEO, Andrew Lau
Jellyfish CEO Andrew Lau sat down with Dave Vellante at SiliconANGLE to discuss the importance of engineering management platforms and why automating and contextualizing insights with data provides a better way to inform the decisions of engineering leaders and executive teams and drive alignment among all parts of the business.
How Gainsight Built a Homegrown Engineering Management Platform
Gainsight has embraced the importance of data-driven engineering. It has become so integral to the team’s success that they’ve used their own products to build their own engineering management platform.
ROI as the Ultimate Measure of Engineering Team Success
In order to ensure the engineering team is aligned with the needs of the business and is making sound decisions, we might consider using ROI to weigh the costs and benefits of those decisions.