CTO

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CTO as a Service (CaaS) in SaaS — Is it useful for your startup?

CTO as a Service (CaaS) in SaaS — Is it useful for your startup?

CTO as a Service, or CaaS, offers startups the expertise of a Chief Technology Officer without the need for a full-time executive. An experienced Fractional CTO will work part-time for your startup, and this is why you could benefit of having one.

How a CTO builds a team

How a CTO builds a team

There are many factors involved in building a thriving team. This is what a CTO must consider when hiring expert teams to build software.

The Steve Test: 12 Steps to Better Teams

The Steve Test: 12 Steps to Better Teams

Evaluate your team’s culture with a simple test. For managers, learn how you can improve your team. For individual contributors, learn what you’re missing out on when it comes to team culture.

The Fractional CTO (or Interim CTO) explained

The Fractional CTO (or Interim CTO) explained

Discover the transformative role of a Fractional CTO in scaling startups and enhancing tech leadership without the overhead. Learn how part-time CTO services can drive your company's innovation and growth efficiently.

How a CTO makes technology decisions

How a CTO makes technology decisions

It’s time to build a new product. Some people within the organization have championed individual native applications built in Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android. Others recommend a cross-platform approach, preferring React Native. And a growing number of engineers want to use Flutter, a newer technology. How does...

Merging 4 codebases with help of Rector

Merging 4 codebases with help of Rector

The set up When developing software, you sometimes come up with ideas that in the end don’t really work out. Depending on the idea and on the time spent finding out it’s a bad idea, it can be challenging to turn back the changes. One of those ideas...

How to hire a CTO

How to hire a CTO

During the past years, I’ve interviewed a lot of developers, technical leaders, and CTOs. There are a few key things I’ve learned about hiring a good CTO for your startup. Does every successful technical team need a Chief Technology Officer at one point in time? What are the...

The first days as a firefighting CTO — what to focus on when you are hired to lead a team in times of change

The first days as a firefighting CTO — what to focus on when you are hired to lead a team in times of change

At madewithlove, we join teams when things aren’t so stable. Maybe a key non-replaceable employee has left or a new investment is fueling growth. I join these companies as a CTO ad interim, someone to captain the ship through troubled waters. It’s hard at times since I’m...

12 Factors in the era of containers

12 Factors in the era of containers

The 12factor manifest is a set of guidelines to help us build SaaS applications that can easily be operated and scaled without much effort. It was originally put together by the folks at Heroku and is as relevant today as it was when it was published in 2011. Heroku uses...

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