Once upon a time, CPO asked me what my current activities are and I did not have an exact answer. It was so unusual for me because I really like to structure everything and know all the detailed answers. On a position of a technical coordinator / VP Engineering (or you can call it CTO), I have so many different types of activities that are difficult to structure.

Let’s try to group them (an important remark: these activities are what I’m doing, but I’m not saying that it’s a MUST for CTO ):

Technical vision

• Develop a technical strategy for the company
  • platform selection and technical design
  • specifying tools
  • project architecture, code structure, the data structure
• High-level technical overview
• Performance analysis
• Security audit
• Reduce costs

Recruitment & Brand development

• looking for smart people in the network
• interview process
• building a school of own trainees
• communication with external recruitment agencies
• organizing/support conferences/meetups
• organizing different team building activities

Knowledge sharing & Self-education

• Identify and exploit new technologies
• grow technical leaders
• track progress
• build individual Development Plan
• project-application knowledge sharing
• reevaluation procedure

Process

• setup agile process, make adjustments if needed
• assure department/team is self-sufficient in terms of resources
• participate in company roadmap planning