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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by marktolson on Monday May 22, 2023 @04:34AM (#36028804)
Same path, but for the last 10 years i've been a CTO. Right now i'd kill for fewer meetings and more focus time. Starting to take its toll.
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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by onion2k on Monday May 22, 2023 @04:44AM (#36028855)
Hire an engineering manager and delegate.
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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by jksmith on Monday May 22, 2023 @11:26AM (#36032670)
Suggest wrong direction. Make teams more autonomous and develop the art of the backlog. Too much management is what's wrong with organizations these days.
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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by andruby on Monday May 22, 2023 @05:01AM (#36028954)
Make the changes you'd love to see. The CTO role is vague and broad and is defined differently in most companies anyway. You can delegate things to an engineering manager or director. Or if the company is large enough to a VP.

find a cross-section of what is valuable for the company and what you like doing

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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by hgsgm on Monday May 22, 2023 @10:12PM (#36038988)
I don't think the Eng Dir will enjoy doing the CTO's job for the CTO. In 6 months Eng Dir would be in a meeting with the CEO asking the CEO to fix the glitch.
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