Build an Effective Tech Strategy
Learn from a world-class industry expert
Hector has over 10 years of experience in the Tech Industry and has spent the last 5 years managing large Engineering teams and is currently a Senior Engineering Manager at Spotify leading teams behind some of Spotify’s most popular features like Spotify Wrapped. He is passionate about Tech leadership and strives to accomplish 3 things:
- Deliver business impact 💸
- Provide the best customer service to the managers reporting to him ⭐️
- Do tech strategically and at a standard that enables long-term speed 🚀
This course is for:
Tech Leads, Engineering Managers (at all levels) and Staff Engineers
What you will be able to do after this course:
Attendants will learn to:
- Use a simple model to identify a good strategy and describe their own.
- Identify the lifecycle of innovation and how to analyze their own innovation lifecycles.
- Chart a portfolio of their own innovation investments.
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Additional information about the course
Session 1: Can you say what your strategy is?
Goal: Attendants can articulate the why/how/what of the business strategy of their Product Area.
Important Learning Objectives:
- 1. A strategy has clear, measurable objectives.
- 2. The basic elements of a strategy should be aligned.
- 3. The Tech strate.
Session 2: Innovation
Goal: Attendants have an inventory of the most important technologies they rely on, their maturity and awareness of the next generation technologies.
Important Learning Objectives:
- 1. Understand Strategic Commitment requires opportunity costs.
- 2. Understand how technology performance evolves in a S-curve.
- 3. Understand how technological disruption occurs in discontinuous S-curves.
- 4. Understand Market Dynamics to assess when and how to do a “curve jump”.
Session 3: Portfolio Management
Goal: Attendants make an inventory of the systems and features they own, and chart their current and future importance.
Important Learning Objectives:
- 1. Understand Market Growth / Market Share and find examples of products in such stages.
- 2. Chart an Application Portfolio.
- 3. Learn what development strategy to use depending on the current and future importance of a system.
- 4. Differentiate high vs low growth.
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