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New CTO Starter Pack
Curated collection of essential insights and frameworks for CTOs in their first 90 days, organized in recommended reading order.
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Engineering Hiring & Team Building
Comprehensive guides, frameworks, and templates for hiring top engineering talent and building high-performing teams.
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Your First 90 Days as CTO: A Complete Playbook
A comprehensive, week-by-week guide for new CTOs covering stakeholder alignment, technical assessment, team building, and strategic planning in your first three months.
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CTO Rating Framework: Comprehensive Self-Assessment
A comprehensive framework for assessing your effectiveness as a CTO and your team's functional capabilities, with weighted maturity scoring and AI-driven roadmap planning.
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Team Retention Rate
Measure how well you retain engineering talent. High turnover is expensive and disruptive—track and improve this critical team health metric.
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Scaling Engineering Teams: Lessons from the Trenches
Hard-won lessons from scaling engineering teams from 5 to 50+ engineers, including org structure, hiring, and maintaining culture.
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The Complete Technical Hiring Framework
A comprehensive framework for hiring exceptional engineers, from defining roles to making offers, with scorecards and templates.
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Engineering Onboarding Framework: From Day 1 to Full Productivity
A comprehensive 30/60/90 day onboarding framework that gets engineers productive faster. Includes checklists, success metrics, common pitfalls, and templates for every stage of the onboarding journey.
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Documentation Standards & Knowledge Management: Building Institutional Memory
A comprehensive framework for engineering documentation and knowledge management. Includes documentation tiers, templates for ADRs and RFCs, wiki organization, and processes to prevent knowledge loss.
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The Engineering Team Scaling Playbook: From 5 to 50+ Engineers
A systematic guide to scaling your engineering team without losing velocity or culture. Includes org structures, hiring plans, onboarding frameworks, and the critical inflection points every CTO must navigate.
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First 90 Days as CTO: From Day One to Strategic Impact
A comprehensive playbook for new CTOs to navigate the critical first 90 days. Includes listening tour framework, quick wins strategy, relationship building, and credibility establishment.
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Engineering Salary Bands: A CTO Guide to Building Pay Scales That Hire and Retain
Engineering salary bands: a CTO guide to building pay scales that hire and retain
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Engineering Interview Questions That Scale: A Practical Guide to Using a Technical Interview Question Bank
Engineering interview questions that scale: a technical interview question bank guide
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Most CTOs Don’t Have a Hiring Problem. They Have a Standards Problem.
Most CTOs don’t have a hiring problem. They have a standards problem.
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Scaling the Team
Veloxa just closed a $15M Series A. The lead investor's condition: triple the engineering team from 8 to 24 in six months. Navigate the hiring pace, org structure, and management layer decisions that will define your culture.
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Engineering Manager README Template
A personal user manual template for engineering managers to share their working style, values, and expectations with their team.
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Hiring Scorecard Template
A structured interview evaluation template with competencies, rating scales, and consistent assessment criteria.
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Onboarding Checklist Template
A comprehensive 30/60/90 day onboarding plan for new engineering hires with milestones and success criteria.
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