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383: Working better with your CTO for innovation – with Steve Orrin

Product Innovation Educators

Today we are talking about senior roles that contribute to innovation, specifically the role of CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Joining us is Steve Orrin, CTO at Intel. 1:52] What’s your role like as Federal Chief Technology Officer (CTO)?

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Why Product Managers Should not Report to the CTO

Mind the Product

Product managers often end up reporting to the CTO, and some will argue that this is a good thing. Why Shouldn’t a CTO be the Boss? So if they report to the CTO it creates the impression of bias against the business and user. Being a product manager is no longer being a developer by another name. How can CTOs Help?

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Road to Product Consensus

The Product Guy

Why not just use the team to generate ideas, pick the best ones yourself and deliver the spec to the team to develop it? Well for one if your developers don’t agree with the direction they may simply refuse to make it. That was when I started doing product work more closely with my team, my team lead and the CTO.

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Alchemer CTO, Brandi Vandegriff, Receives CIO of the Year Award from Colorado Technology Association

Alchemer Mobile

The Colorado Technology Association (CTA) is the state’s premier technology organization focused on advancing the Colorado technology ecosystem. Each year CTA hosts the Tech Summit and the awards are a highlight of that annual event. Alchemer is a KKR portfolio company. For more information about Alchemer visit www.alchemer.com.

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. They have value in many cases but increasingly are fraught with peril.

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Tech debt in the eyes of the developer by Jan Kaltoun

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Prague talk, Jan Kaltoun, Chief Technology Officer at STRV dives into debt in the eyes of the developer and how to navigate tech debt. How did it affect you in your Read more » The post Tech debt in the eyes of the developer by Jan Kaltoun appeared first on Mind the Product.

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TPG Live Recap: Bridging Enterprise Customer Gaps & Leading Hybrid Product Teams

The Product Guy

We developed a series of exclusive frameworks and step-by-step strategies to help you turn these insights into action. Onsites still matter – even in remote-first teams, periodic in-person gatherings can reset relationships, clarify priorities, and recharge alignment. Want the Frameworks to Apply These Lessons?

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The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data: How to Go From Concept to Reality

Speaker: Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst at NC Dept. of Health & Human Services, and Chief Technology Officer at SolonTek

Join Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst at NC DHHS, and Chief Technology Officer, SolonTek, to learn how you can capitalize on your ideas by blending internal with external while leveraging them into a cohesive strategy for both the short term and the long term. What value do you see in your data?

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy for the future.

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Schema Evolution Patterns

Speaker: Alex Rasmussen, CEO, Bits on Disk

If you want to make your development team squirm, ask them about database schema changes or API versioning. Most development teams struggle with changing database schemas and updating API versions without breaking existing code. Alex Rasmussen is an expert in helping teams through these struggles.