How does CTO help the business?

Many articles or celebrities talk about programmers' career development channels will mention CTO, Will also talk about CTO A very important responsibility , Focus on business , Help the business succeed . however , How to focus on business , Help the business succeed , Few people give a clear definition or method . This article , Half a cigarette combines itself in IT industry 12 What I saw and heard in , Talk about CTO How to focus on business , How to help business succeed ？

1、 I start from the following 2 Three dimensions to explain how programmers participate in business .

1.1、 Programmer development stage ： Ordinary programmers 、 R & D Manager 、CTO

1.2、 The stage of the company's products ： Product research stage 、 Business planning stage 、 Product launch stage 、 Product iteration phase 、 Product operation stage 、 Product promotion stage

2、 Let's talk about acting CTO Change how to help business succeed . That's important , Make sure to see the last ！

1、 How should programmers participate in the business step by step

• Ordinary programmers or technical managers

Friends at this stage , In addition to completing their own development tasks and writing high-quality code , We also need to pay attention to the overall picture of the business , For example, you develop order transactions , You can extend to see the goods 、 Accounting 、 How to play marketing , Talk more with colleagues in products and operations . Let yourself know more about business , In this way, we can know what the company does as a whole , It is convenient for you to make your own judgment about the future , It can also lay a foundation for subsequent career development .

• R & D Manager or R & D director

Friends at this stage , Have been in the industry for many years , In addition to research and development , You need to have the ability to sort out and deliver projects . At this time, in addition to formulating the project plan , Tackle key technical problems , Follow up the progress of the project , It's more about working with product colleagues 、 Operation colleagues go to discuss business , For example, what is the process of this requirement , Whether the demand is reasonable , Whether it is a pseudo demand, etc . We should also consider what requirements may be derived from this demand in the future , Do a good job in the expansibility of the architecture . And after this requirement is realized , How to operate , How to monitor users' usage , What data support can R & D provide for product operation , So that they can make better decisions .

• Technical director or CTO

At this stage , Basically, you are already in the core management of the company , At this stage, the company's expectation for you is not just to lead the R & D team to complete business needs , More importantly, I hope you can make some breaking moves . What are the details ？ Half a cigarette should include these ： Stabilize R & D infrastructure （ Team and Technology ）, Clarify the business logic of the company , and CEO Work together to develop an executable business implementation path , Lead product R & D students to deliver the system , Cooperate with marketing and operation directors to promote products and revitalize users , Help the company achieve business profits and industry changes .

2、 All stages of the company's products CTO How to participate in the business

• Preliminary research

At this time, the boss has a business idea , I need you to do market research together , Find a relatively accurate customer to chat . This is an important means to participate in business , Know your customers , Be close to your customers .

• Business plan

Through in-depth understanding of the industry and customers , You have to make sure a few things ：

1、 Who are our customers , Clearly describe the user portrait

2、 What products are we going to make , Solve users' pain points , What are the advantages of our products , What are the competitors in the industry

3、 How can we finally make a profit , What is our cost , How do we make income

• Product development

Product development stage , There's nothing to say , Arrange the team to perform their respective duties . Manage products and research and development , Balance the needs of various technologies and products . All parties play games , Take an optimal solution .

• Product launch

Make some ritual release plans , It is also an incentive for product development .

• Product operation

This stage , Take the initiative to think with the operation , How to improve user stickiness , How to improve user activity , How to promote innovation , How to make users repurchase .

• Product promotion

This stage , The product has basically been accepted by customers , Need to further expand the market together with sales , Work out the sales SOP Standard action .

3、 Eligible CTO How to do

• Stabilize the chassis

As CTO, The R & D team is your core asset , All the upper levels are based on this site , This chassis must be fastened , In this way, the whole business can run faster and more stable , In order to make the growth flywheel of the company take off completely .

Product team

• From a higher perspective than the product manager , Discuss how to implement business and Commerce , At the same time, think about how to bring about industrial change .

• Lead the product team to sort out the business , Demand output .

R & D team

• Need to discuss with technical architects , How to do a good job in R & D infrastructure , Including the development of R & D system 、 Basic components 、devOps、 Performance monitoring alarm, etc , In short, it can make R & D more efficient 、 Things that make the system more robust need to be done .

• Need to work with business architects , Do a good job in business top-level design , For example, sort out business boundaries , Business core model , Micro service division and so on .

• Select a general who can fight and lead a small team to complete the goal . After the above two things are done , The rest is R & D, focusing on business development , At this time, select several capable generals , Strictly follow the project plan .

• Get to know more people , Introduce more advanced talents .

• Go to the market

Follow CEO Work together to develop business plans and sales strategies . See if the market play is reasonable , See if the business is landing smoothly .

At this time, you need to go to the customer , Stay with customers for a long time , Talk about the experience and feedback of product use .

Try to help customers do business , Try to sign some lists .

Help find unreasonable points or processes in the marketing process , Help improve , Develop sales promotion SOP.

• Disk customers

A lot of times , We are all ground forces and space forces at the same time , Sales can be done to promote worship or become big customers BD. But small customers may need air forces - The operation has done . At the same time, the operation also needs to be renewed and revitalized . At this time CTO It is necessary to count customers together with the operation , Master more customer data through data drive , Discuss together how to do pull new , How to be active , How to be a customer and so on .

• Stare at the result

In addition to the above things , There are some CTO Assistance is also needed CEO, Focus on business results , Assist other teams in support and process improvement .

4、 summary

All in all ,CTO Is a very important position , The pattern should be opened , Have a high vision , Be well connected . There are many things you can do , It can be said that the ceiling of a company's development is largely determined by the company CTO Decisive .

Half a cigarette is mainly from the perspective of business , To discuss CTO How to participate in the business , Help business , I hope it helps you .

Finally, write a sentence I have always said to all programmers , I hope you can also promote .

“ Help business win first , Keep pursuing technology ”