Course: CTO
Mentor - Serhii Herasymov, Founder at Da'at Consulting, CTO, 15+ years in the industry.
We invite you to the Crash Course: Chief Technology Officer, where you will be able to go through the main stages of a technical specialist in the position of service station in the realities of Ukrainian IT.
Language of the event: Ukrainian
The knowledge gained will be useful to those who already hold the position of CTO, and those who are just planning to develop their career. Based on practical experience, real cases and analysis of the speaker's facaps, (which, of course, were) you will significantly save your time and resources for more effective performance of your duties.
And you will also be able to become an indispensable technical visionary and enabler in your own company!
Mentor - Serhii Herasymov, Founder at Da'at Consulting, CTO, 15+ years in the industry.
- Key takeaways:
- Master technical leadership that bridges innovation with business strategy to drive competitive advantage and growth
- Learn effective management of technology budgets, resource allocation, and ROI measurement for technology investments
- Build high-performing engineering teams through strategic hiring, mentorship programs, and cultivating a culture of continuous learning
- Navigate digital transformation by balancing legacy system maintenance with the adoption of emerging technologies
- Gain practical frameworks for tech roadmap development that align with business objectives and market demands
- Master stakeholder communication strategies to effectively translate technical concepts for business leaders, boards, and investors
- Acquire data-driven decision-making skills to leverage analytics
- and metrics for strategic technology planning and performance optimization
We will take a look at practical and hands-on examples and case studies.
Audience
- CTO in IT outsourcing and product companies
- Technical specialists who are interested becoming technical managers
- Operational managers of Ukrainian outsourcing companies
Format:
Dates: 6.05 - 29.05, 18:30 - 20:30, (Kyiv time, GMT+3), sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Duration of each class ~2 hours.
Platform: Zoom. We will send you a link to the broadcast the day before the course, and it will also be available on this page. In addition, all materials and lecture recordings will be available on the learning platform.
Language of the event and presentation: Ukrainian
Number of participants is limited: 30 places
Program
Session 1: Basics. Part 1
- CTO role in outsourcing and product
- Responsibilities of the CTO
- Structures and commands
- Interaction with C-level and subordinates
Session 2: Basics. Part 2
- Management styles (Command and control vs everything else)
- Financial management
- KPI, OKR
- The first hundred days
- Technical analysis of the company
- Gap analysis of the company's state of technical excellence
- Create a helicopter strategy for company development
- Identification and elimination of potential risks
Session 3: The first hundred days. Part 2
- Easy wins / significant wins
- Planning your time
- Strategy and strategizing
- Building a technical strategy
- Reprioritization and modification of strategy
- Product thinking and strategy
- Technical enabling
Session 4: Case Study
- Development of a strategy for the implementation of the transition to a new technological stack
- Results of a strategy session for a medium-sized outsourcing company in the form of OKRs
- Develop KPIs for given OKRs
- Develop potential actions for OKRs and KPIs
- Develop a strategy for involving peers in the implementation of the technical strategy
- Identify the potential risks of implementing the strategy
- Technical Management Structure Development
Session 5: CTO in Sales. Part 1
- Pre-sale process and role of CTO and technical specialist in it as a support team member, as a sales driver
- Organisation of the sales process from the position of CTO
- Architecture in Discovery phase: who, what, how
- Architectural approaches of dealing with problems
- Introduction to workshops and technical requirements gathering
Session 6: CTO in Sales. Part 2
- Workshops and technical requirements gathering: NFR, stakeholder analysis, architectural drivers, quality attributes and Architecture tradeoff analysis method
- Documentation in sales process: C4, Software design documents etc.
- Effective estimation: dos and don’ts, best practices
- Presenting results of pre-sale / discovery - C-level presentation, presentation for client’s tech staff
- Soft skills for technical specialists in presale process
Session 7: Case Study
- Development of a technical sales support process
- A portrait of a typical client of a service campaign, KPI from a strategic session
- Develop a process for technical sales support
- Develop a list of artefacts to be used by the development team in the future and a continuous process of knowledge transfer between SDLC phases
Session 8: Crisis and Scaling
- Crisis technical management
- Scaling the company: tasks for service stations
- Innovation - prediction, analysis and adaptation
- Antipatterns and ways to overcome them
- Fire fighting
- Permanent memory loss
- High index of power distance
Mentor: Sergey Gerasimov, Founder at Da’at Consulting, CTO.
— 15 years in the software development industry, founder of Da`at Consulting
— Participated in and led the following areas: technical sales consulting, financial planning, recruitment and resourcing, architectural design and implementation, technical audit, business digitalization, adoption of cloud strategies, mentoring and coaching
— Acted as a developer, technical manager, architect, technical director and CTO
— Worked and works as a CTO in outsourcing and product companies
— Speaker at conferences, meetings, workshops, author of courses
— Scaled development departments from 20 to 350 developers
— Promoter and implementer of the concept of technology agnosticism, personal area of interest - functional programming languages, low code / no code movement
Feedback from previous iterations (Crash course format):
"A great course for reviewing the duties and work of a service technician. Good book recommendations and what to pay attention to when promoting to this position. It was useful for broadening the worldview "
"The aspects of service technician work covered in the course were chosen to be interesting and relevant. To improve, more examples from life, examples of difficult situations, and analysis of decisions made, what worked and what did not work in different cases."
"I liked the material and the active course participants, who supplemented the course with useful comments. I received a lot of information that needs to be processed and implemented in the company)"
"Expert speaker, rich interesting content, excellent recommendations for books, I have already started reading one of them. I really liked the interactive development of the strategy and the speaker's feedback on it. Interesting questions from the audience. Overall - it was cool."
"I really enjoyed the course and it broadened my horizons on the CTO topic. I gained a lot of new knowledge that I had not encountered before. I noted down a lot of topics that I will work on. A clear path for further development was outlined. The course exceeded my expectations. (I currently work as a developer.)"
Event price
Access to 8 online broadcasts (16 hours)
Presentation and materials
Access to the course recording on the learning platform (1 year)
Access to the chat in the TG, where the speaker will answer questions (1 month)
Participant certificate
10% discount on participation in Fwdays conferences
Available payment in installments from Monobank and purchase in installments from PrivatbankIf after the first lesson you realize that your expectations do not match, we will refund the money in full.