CTO Think Podcast

CTO Think

A pragmatic podcast about leadership, product dev, and tech decisions between two recovering Chief Technology Officers.

  1. Vue, Vuex, Auth, and State Management

    06/23/2020

    Vue, Vuex, Auth, and State Management

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    40 min
  2. BLM, White Privilege, Accountability, Guilt, Responsibilities, and Helping

    06/09/2020

    BLM, White Privilege, Accountability, Guilt, Responsibilities, and Helping

    The world feels like a different place from just a couple weeks ago, but it's not. The United States is still in the same place it has been for a long time, if you're a minority. Randy and Don discuss the Black Lives Matter movement, police accountability, racism, privilege, guilt, and where they might fit in to not being part of the problem.

    55 min
  3. From Manager/Dev to Non-coding Manager

    05/19/2020

    From Manager/Dev to Non-coding Manager

    Right before the COVID pandemic hit, Randy was asked to take on the management of two new teams, which changed his typical role of manager-developer to strictly people management, meetings, and project tracking. Don and Randy discuss the change as it affected Randy and what he thinks is the most important factors for folks in the same boat.

    32 min
  4. Big Ideas Getting Planned, Part 2

    05/12/2020

    Big Ideas Getting Planned, Part 2

    Don and Randy continue their discussion about the business plans in the Big Idea Gator Business Plan Competition, this time about the best entries and how the competition played out. Coconuts!

    52 min
  5. Big Ideas Getting Planned, Part 1

    05/05/2020

    Big Ideas Getting Planned, Part 1

    Don brings in a few examples from an upcoming Big Idea Gator Business Plan Competition in which he's playing the role of a judge. We discuss the importance of good writing, identifying the problem, and setting reasonable goals and metrics to give folks the notion you have some idea what you're doing. In Part 1, we discuss the weakest entries before tackling the better ones in Part 2.

    51 min
  6. Difficult Choices and Hard Conversations

    03/31/2020

    Difficult Choices and Hard Conversations

    Don and Randy talk about what's been going on with the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has affected their firms, jobs, and side projects. What does it mean to talk to folks under your wing? What kind of leadership does it take when the real world seems out of your control?

    43 min
  7. Growing Up and Losing the Fun Parts of App Development

    03/03/2020

    Growing Up and Losing the Fun Parts of App Development

    Don asked Randy about what he's working on, lately, and Randy exclaimed, "nothing fun," which actually turns out not to be true. Randy details the additional mix of people, communication, and risk management around mature application development and it becomes the setting for a larger-picture discussion on how things change with app dev as you age.

    35 min
  8. Improving Visual Communication for Remote Management

    02/25/2020

    Improving Visual Communication for Remote Management

    Randy is making efforts to improve the communication of visual examples via remote video meetings. We discuss his first attempt to achieve online whiteboarding using a Macbook Pro, a Wacom One tablet, and a Google Jamboard.

    30 min
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A pragmatic podcast about leadership, product dev, and tech decisions between two recovering Chief Technology Officers.

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  • Creator
    CTO Think
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2020
  • Episodes
    124
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © CTO Think
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