Note on The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer via Anna Shipman

It’s worth remembering that the CTO’s primary role is to work with exec peers across the business to deliver business outcomes, and that is the same for all of the exec team, and the CEO.

So any proposal you make has to make it clear that this is about the business, not about improving engineering for its own purposes.

FROM:

Anna Shipman

The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer

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The CTO’s role is less about engineering than your role is (below them).

Is that true of every software engineering role? It’s less about engineering the higher/wider your scope?