Effective technologists implement good technology; effective technology leaders enable others to do this. These are two very different roles. Most technology leaders usually start their careers as “line level” technologists. Over the course of my career, I have found three essential skills that technologists need to make this transition to become effective technology leaders…
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Tags: beckhard, carnegie, communication, Estimation, freakonomics, harris, Kawasaki, kotter, mcconnell, Motivation, Schein, truss, yager
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A few weeks back, I shared an observation from one of AOL’s former CTO’s that the US Constitution was the best architecture document in history (my apologies to my colleagues from other countries). As we approach US Independence Day, I thought it would be appropriate to begin a series that presented the Architecture Constitution...
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Tags: AOL, CIO, CompuServe, Constitution, CTO, Netscape
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You may wonder why I am writing this post today -- of all days -- in our current economic situation. Right now, more and more people are returning to school to “beef up” their skill sets since they are unable to find jobs. It makes sense to me that this experience should be as...
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Tags: Agile, AIM, AOL, Berkeley, CMU, College, Computer Science, Estimation, Google, IM, Incubator, Industry Partnership, MIT, Quality Assurance, R&D, Software, Stanford, SUN, University, Yahoo
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