27. How to speak the language of your devs to build trust and achieve more

In this week’s episode, Hamish Tedeschi, CEO and Founder of Mechanical Rock - a cloud native product development company, joins us.

The purpose of this episode is to help you understand more about your developers and development teams. We dive into a variety of related topics, including:

• The changing role of developers:
  • Web vs software developers;
  • Front-end vs back-end vs full-stack developers;
  • Critical roles of a development team; and
  • An overview of languages used by different developers.
• How CMOs can get the best from their development teams:
  • Cross-functional team design;
  • DevOps vs Agile;
  • Various concepts such as cloud computing, Serverless and infrastructure by code; and
  • Other tips to get the best from your development teams.
• Leveraging technology better:
  • How CMOs should be thinking about technology and where to start;
  • How to build stronger relationships with IT, vendors and consulting companies; and
  • How companies and developers with outdated languages can manage a two tier economy.

This one does get a little technical, but we have notes available via our website. Look out for this episode and download the notes. Enjoy the episode.

References

• Amazon Web Services - Serverless Computing.
• Eric Ries - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.
• Gene Kim - The Phoenix Project (A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win).
• Gene Kim - The Unicorn Project.
• Norman Tuckman - Stages of Team Development (via MIT).

Contact Hamish Tedeschi

• Find Hamish on LinkedIn and mention you heard him on the podcast. Find out more about Mechanical Rock.

Contact Growth Generators

• Find out how Ty and Growth Generators can help you design and build a modern marketing team that drives growth using our 3-stage framework for marketing team transformation.  Follow or connect with Ty on LinkedIn.

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This episode was hosted by Ty Hayes, produced by Dylan Todd and edited by Lewis Hallam.