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About the Book
At its core, "Spicy: The Tech Leadership Cookbook" is your guide to building a successful, high-performing tech department. Whether you're a seasoned CTO, engineering manager or aspiring to a tech leadership position, these recipes will provide the tools and insights you need to lead with confidence and effectiveness.
You'll learn how to design and implement effective strategies for tech departments to meet performance, scalability, reliability, and security goals. Each recipe includes one or two problem statements, with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for solving them, as well as examples using real-life scenarios, team dynamics, and organizational structures.
You'll also receive implementation guidelines, and a discussion of the pros, cons, and trade-offs that come with each solution.
- Learn how to establish a purpose-driven tech department for success
- Discover how to set Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for focus
- Implement an Agile Roadmap for effective planning
- Make meetings productive and ensure things get done
- Understand how to structure teams within your department for optimal performance
- Learn how to deal with single points of failure and ban acronyms
- Master the art of announcing difficult decisions and delivering end-to-end
- Understand how to optimize onboarding, deal with underperformance, and make remote teams work
- Learn the importance of Product Owners, customer feedback, and informed decision-making through analytics and metrics
- Discover how to measure the performance of your teams, integrate security into your development cycle, and deal with tech risk and tech debt
- Learn how to ensure your cloud computing costs don't spiral out of control and how to ensure teams perform well in case of incidents
- … and many more actionable recipes
About the Author
Raphael A. Bauer is a software engineer by profession and has held engineering leadership positions at technology companies such as Semrush, Zalando and Springer. These days, he's mostly working as an Interim CTO. "Spicy: The Tech Leadership Cookbook" is based on his experiences as Engineering Leader and Interim CTO.