Large organisations will need CTOs to survive the digital revolution. These CTOs will be former web developers, who know how to get things done on large architectures. Symfony developers will therefore be excellent candidates. But with great power comes great responsibilities. Here are five important tips to keep in mind: - stay lean - be rational - act as business leaders - foster teamwork - know that you know nothing Good luck in your future responsibilities!

2. With Great Power
Comes Great Responsibilities

3. The Economy is Rocked by
the Digital Revolution

4. THE DIGITAL CHAMPIONS ARE SCARING EXISTING COMPANIES
Economical context

5. BECAUSE TODAY SPEED IS THE KEY
Importance of time to market

6. AND THE DIGITAL LEADERS ARE REALLY REALLY FAST
Deployment frequency
Deployment frequency in traditional IT departments?
Once a month?
Leading startups count in hours!
• Facebook: 2x / day
• Netflix, Etsy: 30x / day
• Amazon.com: 300x / hour !

7. You will be the Future Leaders
of the Digital Economy

9. QUICK REMINDER ABOUT DEVOPS
Devops
The dev The ops

10. DEVS WANT SPEED AND THINK SHORT TERM
Dev needs
I just coded this really
cool feature using
CouchDB/PouchDB/
Node.js/S3
Let me deploy it now,
business wants it online
today!
The dev The ops

11. OPS WANT STABILITY AND THINK LONG-TERM
Ops needs
CouchDB/PouchD
B/Node.js/S3???
The dev The ops

12. WITHOUT TEAMWORK YOU GET A FAILED PROJECT
What about
Backups?
Monitoring?
Performances?
Security?
The dev The ops
Documentation?
Scalability? Business is
not going to
be happy…

13. NOW THINK LARGE SCALE…
Large scale Devops

14. DEVOPS IS BECOMING A TOP MANAGEMENT ISSUE
Devops is strategic

15. LARGE COMPANIES WILL NEED CTOS WHO UNDERSTAND THIS
The importance of CTOs
CTO

16. WHO WILL BE THE PERFECT CANDIDATE?
CTO job description
• Experience in web development
• Gets things done
• Can structure large projects
=> Symfony developers!

17. LARGE COMPANIES WILL NEED YOU
The importance of CTOs
YOU

18. Five Tips for your Upcoming
Responsibilities

19. Stay lean
(don’t become Java Architects)

20. GROUPON STARTED WITH A WORDPRESS BLOG!
Lean Startup example
Do not waste time on complex architecture before testing the
business idea
Groupon’s first version is a Wordpress blog!

21. Be rational

22. THE BURNDOWN CHART : A NEUTRAL AND RATIONAL TOOL
Burndow chart example
• Expected results set at the beginning of the sprint
• Progress measured everyday, compared to expected result
• Retrospective to understand and improve

23. REAL WORLD EXAMPLE OF BEING LATE ONE DAY
Burndown chart example
« We are late »

24. NO LIE, NO BLAME: BEING LATE IS A PROBLEM!
PDCA
• Act on the problem ASAP
• Analyse it rationally with the PDCA technique

25. GO&SEE: TOO MANY USER STORIES “TO VALIDATE”
Scrum board picture

26. NO POLITICS, RATIONAL ACTION IS TAKEN, PROBLEM IS SOLVED
Problem solving
• Solve the problem
• Improve

27. Act as a Business Leader

28. BUILD WITH A CLEAR BUSINESS TARGET IN MIND
The build-measure-learn cycle

29. Foster Teamwork

30. OUR JOBS NEED SMALL HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS
The Service Oriented Organisation

31. OUR JOBS NEED SMALL HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS
The Service Oriented Organisation

32. Know that you
know nothing

33. READ BOOKS
• Getting Real
• The Lean Startup
• The Five dysfunctions of a Team
• The Advantage
• Scrum en action
• The Phoenix Project

34. THANKS
@THEODO

35. TAKE HOME MESSAGE
• You are going to be leaders
• Stay lean
• Be rational
• Act as a business leader
• Foster teamwork
• Know that you know nothing