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Episode 419: John Ellithorpe on the Role of a CTO

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Those Soft Skills Are Critically Important

I think the what you really need to do is, if i pull something from the au x side, which is users centre design. And so that applies to almost every aspect of your interactions with the world. You really have to understand what the other people that you interact with, what they really want, what they 'are trying to get' I don't like an organization wher the cto has his own organization of architects at that sit outside of engineering. That's somebody that doesn't have the exact spili talked about. My my preferred model is that you more have a single, lone c to maybe like one or two under but that that c to works with all the lead architects

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