Three titles: VP/Eng, CTO, and Chief Architect. Each one you have on your team, I predict your dev cycle is 5 months longer. If you have a CTO, VP/Eng, and a "Chief Architect", then before your Junior Director of User Interface Quality Engineering has laid down his first line of JSP templating code, you're looking down the barrel of 15 months of overhead.
The role of a CTO is to have a cool title in sales and partnership meetings. Make your CTO your very best sales engineer.
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Three titles: VP/Eng, CTO, and Chief Architect. Each one you have on your team, I predict your dev cycle is 5 months longer. If you have a CTO, VP/Eng, and a "Chief Architect", then before your Junior Director of User Interface Quality Engineering has laid down his first line of JSP templating code, you're looking down the barrel of 15 months of overhead.
The role of a CTO is to have a cool title in sales and partnership meetings. Make your CTO your very best sales engineer.