Being VP of Engineering is harder than being CEO - Translating Engineering to Executives
linearb.io/blog/being-vp-of-software-development-is-harder-than-being-ceo
What Jamie wrote
Good article that uses VP of Engineering as the position, but is equally fitting for any VP or CTO level role leading a technology team in a company.
As VP of Engineering we spend most of our time translating between two groups of people in two parallel universes. We’re citizens of both while not fully belonging to either.
There is a lot of truth in here and many lessons that I've learned over the years. The common lexicon section made me chuckle since I've found sharing stories of how great sales teams work, and the parallels to great technology teams, to be very effective. Sales teams close deals. Tech teams ship. Sales teams commit to a quarterly objective with a lot of unknowns. Technology teams estimate and build out plans, but ultimately are committing with a lot of unknowns.
The translation role as leader is a big one, and one that can be hard to keep front and center at all times.