CTO & VP of Engineering Toolkit

Designed for technology leaders by a seasoned technology leader.

This toolkit contains essential tools and resources.

What's included

1: Organization Design 

Whether you are setting up a brand new engineering organisation or scaling one for growth, there are important factors to be taken into consideration.

• A master checklist consisting of steps & recommendation
• Resources from the industry experts

2: Hiring 

Take a structure approach to hiring diverse talents with varying skill set, diversity, seniority with best practices for before, during and after an interview process.

• Checklist for hiring process
• Sample interview questions
• Interview assessment template

3: Technology Strategy 

Set a direction for the organisation's technology vision and create a document of assumptions, challenges, plans, goals and actions to implement the strategy. 

• Technology Strategy Template
• Example Strategy Document
• Resources from the industry experts

4: Engineering Excellence 

Build a centre of excellence for engineering best practices and foster ongoing development and continuous improvement.  

• A master checklist consisting of steps & recommendation
• Sample dashboard for DevOps metrics & operational health
• Recommended Incident Management Process
• Resources from the industry experts

5: Career Development 

Design a career framework for engineers to set out expectation on technical competency and behaviours required at each level. Provide support & resources for engineers to drive their career growth. 

• A master checklist consisting of career development steps & recommendation
• Career planning workshop deck
• Personal development plan template
• Sample personal development plan
• Self-assessment worksheet
• Career framework resources

6: Alignment & Delivery 

Create alignment and accountability for your delivery teams. Maintain momentum by making progress visible and set up OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) to track and achieve business outcomes.

• OKRs Spreadsheet Template
• Sample OKRs for a software company
• Resources from the industry experts 

To give you an understanding its usefulness, I reviewed a number of job descriptions of CTO roles advertised by companies ranging from small startups to large public companies. I then evaluated the responsibilities against the content in the CTO Toolkit and highlighted how different modules in the Toolkit could be leveraged and applied in the CTO role.

Check out my review and assessment here. 

About Isabel Nyo

Isabel Nyo a technology leader, author and speaker with almost 20 years of experience in the tech industry, with startups to Fortune 500 tech companies.

She is currently working as a Senior Engineering Leader at an enterprise software company and also provides coaching and consulting services to technology leaders worldwide. You can check out her website at http://eisabainyo.net

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