{"id":3883,"date":"2022-01-24T10:18:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T00:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2022-01-24T10:50:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T00:50:17","slug":"90-day-plan-for-a-new-cto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2022\/01\/24\/90-day-plan-for-a-new-cto\/","title":{"rendered":"90-Day Plan For A New CTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Failing to plan is planning to fail, especially when starting a senior tech leadership role in a remote environment<\/h3>\n<p>Starting a senior tech leadership role in a remote environment comes with a new set of challenges, one of them is showing visibility and progress of your contribution.<\/p>\n<p>However, you won't get much done in the first few days apart from introductions and getting to know people. At the same time, you don't want to be in a situation where casual chats and intros take up all your time and before you know it, a quarter or 3 months had passed and there was nothing to show for it. So let me share with you what a new <a href=\"https:\/\/gum.co\/ctotoolkit\">CTO<\/a> should aim to accomplish in the first quarter (ie: 3 months, 90 days).<\/p>\n<h4>Day 1\u200a-\u200aDay\u00a015<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Get to know your peers, direct reports, and leadership<\/li>\n<li>Listen more than talk<\/li>\n<li>Use the company's product and play around with its features<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Day 15\u200a-\u200aDay\u00a030<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about current projects and follow updates<\/li>\n<li>Learn about the technical architecture and tech stacks<\/li>\n<li>Understand how the current projects contribute to the organisation's success<\/li>\n<li>Observe current systems, processes, ways of working, and people and identify strengths and opportunities for improvement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Day 30\u200a-\u200aDay\u00a060<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Form your own opinion around how things work<\/li>\n<li>Monitor progress of engineering excellence* via essential metrics such as uptime, response time, error vs success rate, number of incidents, etc<\/li>\n<li>Put together a 6 month and a year plan, starting with outcomes<\/li>\n<li>Talk to customers and end-users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Day 60\u200a-\u200aDay\u00a090<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Share your plan with leadership and key individuals in the organisation<\/li>\n<li>Make small changes^ that are aligned with the future direction, eg: introducing code review process, implementing structured hiring approach<\/li>\n<li>(^You may check out <a href=\"https:\/\/gum.co\/ctotoolkit\">CTO Toolkit<\/a> for sample dashboards, best practices, and templates.)<\/li>\n<li>Do the first of many quarterly reviews with your direct reports and share your observation about them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lastly, remember when you're starting a new role that it's not a marathon but a sprint. You want to make sustainable changes that will enable your engineering organisation to scale effectively.<\/p>\n<p>You can download this free checklist that contains the above information in a Google Sheet where you can customise with your own start date and tick interactive checkboxes to keep track of your own progress, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1ZRm03qtYxCSZpKfXCqEMf86b3tVGJugcRrhEEXSsiW4\/edit\">The 90-Day Plan For A New CTO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1ZRm03qtYxCSZpKfXCqEMf86b3tVGJugcRrhEEXSsiW4\/edit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/90dayctochecklist.png\" alt=\"90-Day CTO Checklist\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The 90-Day Plan For A New\u00a0CTO<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failing to plan is planning to fail, especially when starting a senior tech leadership role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-software-development-manager","category-featured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>90-Day Plan For A New CTO | Tech Leadership Advice &amp; 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