Fractional CTO Services

Here are some example services that could have a large impact for your company, and are often the difference between success and failure in a small company

“Non-technical CEO” support

• Helping map business requirements to technology choices and product roadmap

• Evaluation of your technology choices, development team and processes

• Providing a ‘boot camp’ in how to work with product and engineering teams

• Guidance on how to sequence your product development for maximum impact

• Act as a “sounding board” for how best to align your technology to your business

Roadmap and Architecture Assessment

• Feedback and guidance on technology decisions

• Roadmap review and input

• Engineering and Product alignment strategies

• Assistance with vendor and technology assessments

Hiring Consulting

• Establish or revamp your interview and hiring processes

• Train and coach your engineering team on best interviewing practices

• Guidance on how to have a DEI-positive experience for candidates

• Inclusion in engineering interview process to provide talent assessment

• Advice on offshoring, near-shoring, and remote-team management

• Interviewing potential full-time CTO candidates

Leadership Development

• Customized coaching for leaders at all levels in your engineering team

• Building' ‘servant leadership’ competencies

• Assessment and coaching for engineers making the transition to management

• Uplevelling existing engineering managers into Directors and VPs

Development Process Expertise

• Establishing a baseline software development process if you don’t have one

• Assessing and tuning an existing software development process

• Education on how to make the process work for your engineering team, not the other way around

• Coaching on how to be agile, and having high-impact, low-bureaucracy Agile processes

Building a Great Culture

• Strategies to attract and retain top talent

• Organizational design

• Leading for maximum impact with minimum bureaucracy

• Creating inclusivity and diversity-first environments

• Building agile and lean capabilities

Scaling

• Advice on scaling :

  • products

  • people and organizations

  • processes

  • technology

“On-Demand” CTO

• Buy a block of monthly consulting hours and I can be available to you and your team on an ad-hoc basis for a wide-variety of needs