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Vision, Strategy An Alignment — Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO
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There is a business vision and a business strategy, a product vision and a product strategy, and then a tech vision and a tech strategy. The business vision, the product vision, and the tech vision need to be aligned. What is your tech vision and strategy, and how do you create one? Find out more as Stephan Schmidt, CTO Coach at Amazing CTO, discusses vision, strategy, and alignment.
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Show Notes
02:25
Why Amazing CTO newsletter?
Born out of over 40 plus years of experience in software development and strong opinions
05:03
The importance of having an opinion and sharing it
If you have an interest in something, youre likely to have an opinion about it, so feel free to air your views and contribute to public discussion Dont be reactionary or agreeable with whoever is the loudest.
08:14
Vision setting, strategy building, and alignment
A lot of the problems in startups and their technology departments is that they lack a vision and strategy. It is why developers on such teams struggle to build the right tech stack
09:24
As a CTO youre a leader. Where are you leading your team to?
CTOs struggle to be leaders because they dont know where to lead people to
09:54
What is a good vision?
The vision is self-motivating, self-evident, explanatory, so no explanation, no motivation, no evidence needs because the vision speaks for itself. The strategy is how to get there.
11:36
Whats in a strategy?
The strategy should be something that helps people make decisions. If it’s not helping people make the right decisions, then it’s a bad strategy.
12:54
What do you do when youre not in charge of the vision and strategy?
There is a business vision and a business strategy, a product vision and a product strategy, and then a tech vision and a tech strategy. The business vision, the product vision, and the tech vision need to be aligned.