Oracle Magazine, March/April 2019
DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY ORACLE MAGAZINE MARCH APRIL 2019 21 small development firm before he finished university How does he stay so productive while keeping current with changing technology SET THE DIRECTION Im the CTO so I manage everyone but I dont manage anyone laughs Weir As chief technology officer for Capgeminis Oracle Practice Cloud Solutions team I have four projects going on right now so Im indirectly managing several people His role is to set the technology direction defining where his practice should invest based on market understanding and then engaging the technology team leads to ensure that staff is trained and enabled He does this by getting his hands dirty so to speak I think the era of software architects who just do PowerPoint is gone I use it to sell a concept or an idea and to draw diagrams Weir says But the main way to inspire is by example he believes More and more I see CTOs who are like me A good example is Lucas Jellema @ lucasjellema CTO of Amis who is even more hands on than I am UNDERSTAND DIGITAL NATIVES Getting hands on is also key to managing the next generation of developers according to Weir What we get from university is young talent who want to get inspired and play with cool tech They are digital born theyve never known anything else However he feels its also important to guide developers toward not trying to reinvent the wheel For many especially if you are inexperienced you try to solve a problem from scratch without investigating whether others have solved the problem already he says Although managing conflict is a whole other topic he says one thing I am always battling with is design decisions I hate accidental decisions He misses the focus on software architecture that he says used to be more prevalent Developers today tend to forget about architecture a little bit I love
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