Start a business now , The last company is the general manager of R & D center of medical technology company , I have worked in several companies before / Technical director , In the scope of my understanding , At present, domestic small and medium-sized enterprises are interested in CTO/ The position difference of technical director is not so clear .
1. Summarize first
Let me briefly summarize CTO/ The role of the technical director ：
* CTO/ The technical director should have the overall control of the enterprise's technical direction , in other words The director is “ handsome ”, The architect is “ take ”. The director will go deep into the research and understanding of the technical architecture , Once you identify a technical direction , Specific architects will be arranged , Work with product manager or project manager , Cooperate in specific product R & D or project R & D , Floor design , Throughout the architecture design process . Summarize the need in multiple technologies 、 product 、 Achieve coordination on the project line , Ensure the collaboration precision of the overall enterprise architecture .
* CTO/ The technical director should be Boss, Business Manager , The product manager is the key person who controls and coordinates the stable operation of the company's products or projects , Make a comparison ：Boss Steer at the bow , Control the route of the enterprise , The superintendent will direct the sailors at the stern , Ensure the stability of the whole ship , If the ship is in a hurry, remind the helmsman , The ship is in danger , We should know how to lead people to rescue .
* CTO/ The technical director should become a preacher of the enterprise's scientific and technological soft power , Can use a more vivid metaphor to Boss, business , Products convey the core advantages of enterprise technology , In front of customers with technical advantages , Show the enterprise's technical ability , Win technical trust for business negotiation .
* CTO/ The technical director has the substantive decision-making power to recruit technical engineers , This right is often slightly lower than Boss The right to make a decision , But in fact, the technical personnel arrangement after the director checks ,Boss Will be the key factor in their decision-making , Therefore, the personnel recruitment of technical engineers is often , Is the core issue of a technology company , Need the director and Boss Close communication and consultation .
That's why the Internet / Science and technology enterprises often have excellent technical background Boss Once the company is done, the reason why it is very powerful , for example ： ding 、 ma 、 Lei jun 、 Zhang Yiming .......
2. Review again
Then I'll talk about being a director , The daily work arrangement of my last technology start-up company in the workplace mode , This is also my last experience in the field of technology management . I am divided into six main responsibilities ：
① R & D coordination ： Our research and development is divided into three lines , Internet APP The team , online ( Business Center ) The team , In hospital development team .
The research and development contents and technologies of the three product lines are very different , for example APP The platform is mainly built by Internet hospitals , There are many applications of new technologies ,Flutter、 Microservices 、Docker..., Realize complete Internet remote consultation between doctors and patients .
Online and offline teams are the process of continuous transition from legacy systems to business platforms , Need to communicate with the hospital his Close interaction , Our mobile phone reservation and registration services are carried by this platform .
The team in the hospital focuses on the legacy system (HIS) Maintenance oriented , Develop new functions , The development language is also different from the Internet Java, It is .Net platform .
So as the leader of R & D , It's important to know both technology and coordination , for example ： We need to finish a project APP Consultation, ordering and purchasing medicine , that APP It is necessary to connect with the business center , And the business center should be responsible for HIS Collaboration , assist HIS The system realizes the consistency of online orders in the hospital database . It's a complicated process , Nor can it be separated , Because of payment , Invoice reconciliation and medical insurance are both in his Finish in .
It can be imagined how complex the work of R & D coordination is , We must keep communicating in groups , Offline work in the hospital , Many cases are teleconferences , Moreover, we must coordinate with all parties to design the actual communication protocol as soon as possible on the clue of communication consistency , On top of the agreement, we are constantly testing the correctness , Then comes the development and upgrading .
② Project coordination ： The purpose of product research and development is to realize profit return by undertaking hospital projects , Systems involving different project teams and operation and maintenance teams in different hospitals , Often, R & D personnel will also be responsible for the development of specific projects , However, the operation and maintenance personnel understand the customer's needs on site , Often appointed as project manager , The project manager needs to communicate the specific work with R & D , It's OK to say in the hospital , On the spot, they have settled the communication , But when it comes to online products , We need to constantly finalize with me the details of product implementation that need to be modified , Even organize meetings , Technical communication between on-site and on-line person in charge , Finalize development details .
Project coordination is very hard , The main reason is that there are large and small hospitals , Project requirements are the same , Then the personnel will pull back and forth very frequently , How to make the best use of the resources in hand , Platoon is an art , We can't be so tired that we scold our mother , We can't let the customer wait for a complaint , Only the person in charge knows .
③ Product coordination ： The coordination here is the most tiring place , In the early stage of product development, a lot of product design communication is required , The product manager of medical system is mainly familiar with medical business , Instead of being familiar with Internet product design , This is the most different from the current Internet e-commerce team , This is also a lot of Internet + Characteristics of the system , Only those familiar with complex business can be responsible for product manager , However, it is difficult to find compound talents who have both Internet product design .
If you recruit talents with pure Internet product design experience, it is difficult to play here , Because the product manager has a lot of work, he needs to communicate with the personnel in the hospital , It takes years of experience to be familiar with the business .
So as coordinator , I know some Internet product design , And will also find some people with this experience for consultation , It is mainly to help the product manager complete the Internet product design , These product managers learn from prototyping , After almost half a year's exercise, I can get started . The main reason is that the taste of product design can not be improved in the short term , But the core of Internet tiktok business is not the experience of shaking. , It's about solving problems , The experience is good enough to .
In fact, the most tired thing is the product design concept , Many Internet thinking designs need to be inculcated to product managers over and over again , Think about how difficult it is for people who have grown up in traditional business systems to suddenly give Internet design ideas , Just one problem to simplify registration , You have to hold a stroke , Even to the roar of the lion , That's what I understand .
④ Manpower coordination ： The company's Internet core team is basically dug up by me through various channels , For entrepreneurial companies that have investment and want to break through in new fields , We must quickly attract Internet talents , Product business and maintenance development talents , I'll dig for Internet technology talents , In just one year, an enterprise team with 30 people and a follow-up scale of 50 people has been built , full of youthful spirit , But the key is to digest talents , My approach is to constantly build HTC blueprints for R & D and products , You can also understand it as drawing big cakes , Although empty , But useful at this stage . You can see the development theme of the company , R & D needs to undertake , Every team and everyone needs a way forward , This is similar to the R & D planning and development reference manual , Then it can greatly reduce the cost of communication and interpretation and running in .
⑤ High level communication ： Mainly with Boss Collaborative communication , The above mentioned human resource recruitment and internal digestion , In fact, the core of R & D head is to understand Boss Our business intention , And help in the technical field they are not good at , Let him know what to do and why not , What to do is expensive , If any problem is not solved, there will be endless trouble , for example ： Upgrading of legacy systems , I propose to upgrade to the business center as soon as possible , Even if human resources are insufficient , I choose the ideal outsourcing team to complete it together with the core team , This is the solution ,Boss If you think it's feasible, make a decision , More than a year of hard work , In the new business, Zhongtai soon became the fastest-growing product of the company's customers .
therefore Boss Tell you what I want to do , Your role is how to do it under the existing conditions ！ Whether to do it or not is Boss The decision , But you always have to give an objective assessment .
⑥ Technical implementation ： As a R & D leader, you must have excellent technical ability , Especially in software architecture , Otherwise, it is difficult to suppress all gods , But technology alone is not enough , The key lies in the powerful support and construction of the company's R & D product architecture .
our APP What are the technical services on the back end , Then I need to make the technical service pre research clear first , In particular, whether the technical features meet the needs of business support must be made clear , Even build services directly on the virtual machine , And guide the developers to develop on the technical system they have built , for example ： I insist on going PostgreSQL, Then all legacy systems must start from MySQL Migration , Engineers who won't migrate , I write the migration manual directly , Give examples to guide .
We go to wechat ,API We don't understand , I'll study it myself Openresty, Write Lua Do dynamic forwarding , Even for a long time, I cooperated with engineers to implement the rhythm of online release on the Internet , Until they teach the specific engineer to be the person in charge of subsequent technical maintenance .
Front end or hospital system , Maybe technology is not good at it , But it does not affect the trust of these team members in you , There are a lot of things , As a technical leader , What you know and master and R & D experience are much more comprehensive than them , Therefore, you can always provide some abstract ideas from the perspective of solving problems , This idea is the common language of different technical teams , Find out the solution, and then in the specific implementation , You don't have to say too much , It can be solved directly .
All in all ,CTO/ The position of technical director is an extremely hard and thankless position , Not as elite as everyone imagined 、 And domineering . Not only need to master various professional skills and cooperation experience , But also need to have indomitable willpower , At the same time, in this domestic environment , Also know some golden mean , Not flattering 、 Don't deceive , Know how to weigh the weight , And be able to solve problems effectively . In addition, their professional skills must be continuously improved , Even in complex environments , Be a fire captain at any time .
Let's talk about this , Will you continue to work hard for this position ？
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