21st Century CTO @21stcto

Sharing best practice for CTO's London, England Joined July 2016

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21st Century CTO @21stcto

4 years ago

Could a teenager (GCSE student) complete your #hiring #tech test? Want to find out? So do they! My #teacher ex-colleagues have asked for real-life tech tests for school students to practice and improve their self-confidence with. The simpler (but real) the better.

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21st Century CTO @21stcto

4 years ago

Good article on stages-of-CTO for stages-of-company. I find most of BlitzScaling unhelpful/inaccurate, but this mapping to CTO careers is great: calbucci.com/the-5-stages-o… @calbucci

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21st Century CTO @21stcto

5 years ago

Last week I gave a talk at #bitrconf - on how (and why) tech teams make the mistake of trying to hire for "No" instead of "Yes", along with practical examples on overcoming this and things to watch out for. Here's the opening video + transcript of intro: linkedin.com/pulse/most-eng…

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Shreyas Doshi @shreyas

5 years ago

“My team has a prioritization problem. Help!“ Product prioritization, a thread: (1/30)

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21st Century CTO @21stcto

5 years ago

You have 50 CVs/Résumés today, 50 more tomorrow - for each role. Keyword matching has a low correlation with finding good candidates (let alone the best) - so how do you get your review time down to something reasonable? Here's how I do it in <2 minutes: hirefirst100.com/index.php/2020…

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Cindy Alvarez @[email protected] @cindyalvarez

5 years ago

When customers ask for a feature, there are two obviously wrong ways to respond: "No, we're not going to build that" and "Yes, we'll put it on the roadmap"