Your business will hit inflection points as you grow and change
I have proven success navigating your questions, challenges and opportunities:
- Development velocity: Why has it slowed? How do we speed up?
- Resource planning: What roles should we hire and when?
- Technical debt: Do we have too much? How can we improve?
- Succession or exit plans: Is our tech in shape? How do we prepare?
- Stability, security & quality: Why do we have bugs and grumpy customers?
- Knowledge & skill sharing: How can we create continuity and predictability?
- Commercial vs product health: How do we set, prioritise and balance goals?
- Mentorship & decisions: Our tech leader needs someone to bounce ideas off!
You are not alone - I've seen this all before, and I can help!
Services
Let's get those roadblocks out of the way!
I can work with you to find the best approach, but here's a few ways I've found that work...
Deep dive
10-20 hours charged by the hour
- Code and architecture walkthroughs
- Practice and process walkthroughs
- Identifying and prioritising the problems that most need solving
- In depth report for tech and non-tech audiences
Outcome: a plan for the next 3-12 months to address the most pressing issues
Monthly support
Fixed monthly fee for an engagement each month
- E.g. a team meeting, retrospective, workshop facilitation, peer review of plans and designs
- E.g. providing an hour or two to bounce ideas with product and tech leaders
Outcome: a partnership for your teams giving the support they need to deliver
Fractional CTO
Fixed monthly fee for a set number of days per week
- Planning for hiring and retention
- Rallying the team to produce technology vision, strategy, and roadmaps
- Establishing planning rituals and artefacts
- Workshopping priorities
- Demystifying for the board and senior leadership
Outcome: the assurance of a senior leader to keep technology on track
Why Gareth?
What I do differently...
Global experience
- Xero, Orion Health, Air New Zealand, Vista Entertainment, Ambit, Wynyard Group, Kiwiplan
- Leading a team of three... and a team of 300
- The first lines of code in a startup and running a 30 year-old codebase
- Health, manufacturing, financial services, intelligence and policing, customer management, call centre, registries, AI...
Pragmatism
- Balancing technical ideals with business priorities, and commercial reality
- Delivering value to customers and nurturing existing tech even when resources are tight
- Balancing innovation with the value of proven technology
Getting stuck in
- From board and strategy to architecture and design
- The "what" and the "how"
- Evidence and measurement driven
Let's talk
Drop me an email or give me a call!