CTBook: Managing a tech team

Prologue

Introduction

1. Contribution

Preface

Developer Jargon

1. Programming
2. Programming language
3. Algorithm
4. Framework
5. Program, Applications and Web Pages
6. Databases
7. Bugs and Errors

Application Development Steps

1. About it
2. Discussing the idea, visualization
3. Choosing a developer or team
4. Legal aspects
5. Use of agile methodologies
6. Fast or excellent?
7. It’s testing time
8. Your first users
9. Keep adding more value to the user

Your own development team

1. About it
2. I have no budget
3. I have enough budget

Entrepreneur Troubleshooting

1. About it
2. My developer is gone
3. My developer asks me to redo all the code again
4. I hired a new developer for my team and the first few days he does nothing. He keeps reading the code.
5. My developer talks to me in technical jargon
6. My developer gives me unreachable deadlines
7. I entrusted my product’s development to an agency and there are many errors.
8. I pay for an app development and I didn’t receive the source code
9. My application have no documentation
10. My frontend/mobile developer told me that our project will need an API
11. My Backend developer says it needs to connect to an API, I thought this was only done by a Frontend role
12. My server/app is down
13. My developer is working in different freelance projects out of the work

Developer Troubleshooting

1. About it
2. They set me pretty tight development deadlines.
3. Non-technical people suggest that I use technologies that someone else recommended.
4. I always develop in the same technologies, I don’t learn anything new.
5. They offered me stocks instead of a higher salary. Is this viable?
6. Why do you add more bugs? We must add more features.
7. You have to add machine learning, blockchain… (insert here the most “trendy” technology of the current year).

Technical Debt

1. About it
2. How could it happen?
3. How can we solve this?

Remote Working

1. About it
2. Pros and cons
3. How can I control a team that is not in the same place as me? What if they honor laziness and I can’t see them?
4. Is there any other alternative to remote work, but one that gives my workers that flexibility?
5. Recommended tools

Feature Development: Is not so complex

1. Introduction
2. Example #1: As a user, I want to register or log in using Facebook or my email address.
3. Example #2 Reservation through a restaurant web page

CTOs: Age and experience for startups

1. Introduction