{"id":795,"date":"2020-07-06T09:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T07:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devpath.pro\/?p=795"},"modified":"2024-02-13T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T20:31:13","slug":"why-i-stepped-down-as-cto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/career\/why-i-stepped-down-as-cto","title":{"rendered":"Why I Stepped Down as CTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skuola.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Skuola.net<\/a> as <em>CTO<\/em> to join <a href=\"https:\/\/radicalstorage.com\/\">Radical<\/a> (formerly BAGBNB) as <em>Engineer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I jumped boat, changed role, changed tech stack, I&#8217;m enjoying a bit more of tranquillity, I have a bit more family time, I got my (dev) passion back! Way to go folks ?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just sharing some reasons for this decision and few insights on the past few years, for my future self, for the ones who have asked or will ask. Also, for a good <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.c2.com\/?DontRepeatYourself\">DRY<\/a> approach \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was a positive experience overall, I did achieve many good things during my tenure as CTO:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Took charge of\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">entire IT dept<\/span>, code and infrastructure <em>the\u00a0hard way<\/em>, in\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">half a day<\/span>, lots of pieces were missing but eventually I managed to figure out everything.<\/li>\n<li>Cut down\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">30%<\/span>\u00a0of IT initial costs.<\/li>\n<li>Empowered a &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Flexible Tech Stack<\/span>&#8221; approach: PHP, Node.js, Python, Bash were some of the languages used, no hard rule for fixed tech stack.<\/li>\n<li>Managed to <em>take control<\/em> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/devpath.pro\/time-management\/practicality-eisenhower-matrix\/\">unstoppable flow of tasks<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Improved load<\/span>\u00a0of the web servers with CDNs, cache layers, version upgrades, code optimizations and fine-tunings.<\/li>\n<li>Established Stand-Up meetings, Planning Poker (then dismissed), Code Review, Weekly Demo, Quarterly Team\u00a0Retrospective, Tech Radar Review Sessions, and Learn at Lunch.<\/li>\n<li>Migrated\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">HTTP to HTTPS<\/span>, upgraded all\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">bare-metals servers<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">upgraded PHP<\/span>\u00a05.6 to PHP 7.2 (and to 7.4 WIP),\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">upgraded Symfony<\/span>\u00a02.7 to 3.4 (and to 4.4 WIP).<\/li>\n<li>Managed to learn a lot about\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">system administration<\/span>, server management, and also enjoyed a few trips in the server farm.<\/li>\n<li>Got\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">out of comfort zone<\/span>, had to face public speaking, conflict management, budgeting, vendor management, people management, managing up, down and across.<\/li>\n<li>Had the &#8220;luck&#8221; to get some DDoS and eventually manage to &#8220;survive&#8221; them.<\/li>\n<li>Improved\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2000\/08\/09\/the-joel-test-12-steps-to-better-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Score<\/a>, implemented\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/12factor.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Twelve-Factor App<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Took part of\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">PCI Compliance Check<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Digital Invoicing<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">GDPR<\/span>\u00a0implementations.<\/li>\n<li>Introduced\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Infrastructure as a Code<\/span>\u00a0with Terraform, Packer and Ansible.<\/li>\n<li>Created a <em>wiki<\/em> to document everything (or as much as possible), as there was no trace of documentation whatsoever, and kept it healthy and up-to-date.<\/li>\n<li>Introduced\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Continuous Deployments<\/span>, reduced pipeline execution time of <em>80%<\/em>, increased YoY number of deployments of ~60%.<\/li>\n<li>Dismissed old rusty Excel spreadsheet and introduced\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Jira<\/span>\u00a0and a ticketing system.<\/li>\n<li>Automated\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">KPI<\/span>\u00a0extraction and reporting,\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtworks.com\/radar\/techniques\/four-key-metrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Four Key Metrics<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">application telemetry<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Helped exposing and\u00a0aggregating core business\u00a0data via <em>BI tool Tableau<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Introduced a mixed approach of <em>bare-metal<\/em> and <em>cloud<\/em> servers.<\/li>\n<li>Got an\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/jacoporomei.com\/news\/make-yourself-a-valuable-employee-by-measuring-your-net-promoter-score\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPS<\/a>\u00a0amongst my colleagues of\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">8.7\/10<\/span>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1uNw4JKmfVoIecl0ggtfYyY9tIcDWaGshTj5Qyj13kiM\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">responses available<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Hired an\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">awesome team.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although won&#8217;t have the chance (at least not in Skuola.net) to pursue some goals I wanted to achieve and enjoy, like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduce effectively\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">NoEstimates<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Extend\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">effective retrospectives<\/span>\u00a0company-wide.<\/li>\n<li>Keep\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">growing the team<\/span>\u00a0(quantity- and quality-wise).<\/li>\n<li>Implement\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">DDD<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">CQRS<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Event Sourcing<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Switch to\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Kubernetes<\/span>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Chaos Engineering.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But as we all know, all good things must come to an end, like my previous experience abroad, it was necessary, it was good and I just moved on and came back to Italy. Next one, now this one too.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t get me wrong, it was a good (rollercoaster-y) time as CTO, although it was going to happen, it was meant to, but why? There&#8217;s no just <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">one<\/span>\u00a0reason.<\/p>\n<p>I so long dreamed of being a CTO, stepping all the way up the ladder. Truth is that was a\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90282088\/why-being-a-manager-is-a-career-change-not-a-promotion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">change of career<\/a>, not a &#8220;level upgrade&#8221;<\/em>. With the &#8220;promotion&#8221; I had to start over and focus on the business part, on the product, on metrics, on the processes, and last but definitely not least on the people. It was challenging, it was fun sometimes and it was pain some others, but that was part of the game.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-833\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.holloway.com\/s\/trh-job-titles-levels-fundamentals-for-software-engineering\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-833\" src=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trh-levels-dual-ladders-300x158.png\" alt=\"IT Ladder\" width=\"615\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.holloway.com\/s\/trh-job-titles-levels-fundamentals-for-software-engineering\">Job Titles &amp; Levels: What Every Software Engineer Needs to Know<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I did\u00a0grow so much with this experience, I worked hard for it, I worked hard in it, I&#8217;m glad I took the job, I&#8217;m glad\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/marcosbardella\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marco<\/a>\u00a0trusted me back at the time, I&#8217;m glad I found some amazing people in my team and in the company, but I&#8217;m glad I left too.<\/p>\n<p>We managed to pair all the tech tasks achieved with real business needs, so the company was pushing value, <em>faster and faster,<\/em> to the customers, while the IT was adjusting, growing and evolving architecture and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that Skuola.net is a small company, with less than 20 people, and being <em>&#8220;flexible&#8221; and &#8220;adaptive&#8221;<\/em> to market needs, all the processes and procedures have been &#8220;normalized&#8221; in the past year, some went smoothly some other not so easily. We did manage to keep the communication flowing across all the departments, regardless of the overall receptivity of the ideas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-864\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/fabiocicerchia\/it-metrics-in-real-life-138409610\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-864 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/it-metrics-in-real-life-1-638-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of IT Metrics in Real Life\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/fabiocicerchia\/it-metrics-in-real-life-138409610\">IT Metrics in Real Life<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With a &#8220;kaizen spirit&#8221; in mind, I started to monitor all the possible improve points and then take actions accordingly. After monitoring and keep improving I decided to share those metrics and the approach followed with some slides and a speech at a <a href=\"https:\/\/roma.grusp.org\/2019\/04\/incontro-di-marzo-2019\/\">local meetup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I left this legacy to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/delda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Davide Dell&#8217;Erba<\/a>\u00a0who is promptly guiding Skuola.net after me, and\u00a0will have fun pursuing on those goals \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Also, the fact I&#8217;ve been <em>on-call 24\/7 for 3 years<\/em>\u00a0kinda took a toll on me, I needed a\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">break<\/span>, I needed to\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">unplug<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">detox<\/span>\u00a0a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Then <em>Charity Majors<\/em> really\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/charity.wtf\/2019\/09\/08\/reasons-not-to-be-a-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">got me thinking<\/a>, it was true to me and I needed to act &#8220;quickly&#8221;, timing-wise I was still in, so back to engineering, my roots, my passion. There&#8217;s no final decision nor hard-no going back to management, for sure not right now.<\/p>\n<p>I was so deeply committed to my role as a manager that I went, unfortunately, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">radio silent<\/span>\u00a0for years:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-855 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/github-2017-300x73.png\" alt=\"GitHub Contributions in 2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"73\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-856 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/github-2018-300x75.png\" alt=\"GitHub Contributions in 2018\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-857 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/github-2019-300x75.png\" alt=\"GitHub Contributions in 2019\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-858 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/github-2020-300x75.png\" alt=\"GitHub Contributions in 2020\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I became more active and involved in open-source the last period of Skuola.net as my dev passion kicked back in.<\/p>\n<p>I also focused a bit more on <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">security<\/span>, it was long overdue in my todo list, I attended many courses, also thought of a change of direction and jump from programming to cybersecurity. For now, I&#8217;m staying in the &#8220;safe harbour&#8221; of programming.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-854 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/certs-covid-192x300.png\" alt=\"List of Certifications obtained during COVID-19 Pandemic\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/>During this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COVID-19_pandemic\">pandemic<\/a>, I had the chance to grab a bunch of free deals and followed <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">over 20 programming courses<\/span>\u00a0(some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.credential.net\/profile\/fabiocicerchia\/wallet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youracclaim.com\/users\/fabio-cicerchia\/badges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>). I felt I needed to get &#8220;back in shape&#8221;, even though in the last 3 years I <em>wore so many hats<\/em> that, I\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">believe<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Impostor_syndrome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maybe<\/a>, I became &#8220;good enough&#8221; on many areas of the IT dept.<\/p>\n<p>I felt like a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkersoftware.com\/blog\/the-fallacy-of-being-a-jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none-developer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack of All Trades and a Master of None<\/a>, and that gave an edge while being CTO, and will also give me an edge as any other role, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/devpath.pro\/career\/what-kind-of-shaped-professional-are-you\/\">T-shaped<\/a> mindset is more flexible and adaptive, but the <em>daily role juggling<\/em> was something I needed to change or at least adjust.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Sep \u201919 I certified myself as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youracclaim.com\/badges\/57ee2129-3416-4bc5-a943-58e0e86779b3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AWS Solutions Architect<\/a>, and I was working daily for a while on the infrastructure and architecture of Skuola.net, also because of my role in helping my dev colleagues to work in a better and smoother way, <em>I naturally fell in love with DevOps<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started to &#8220;question&#8221; myself, built a <a href=\"https:\/\/overreacted.io\/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don&#8217;t Know List<\/a>, went <em>back to basics<\/em> and challenged myself, and planned to keep doing so over time: I started some programming challenges on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackerrank.com\/fabiocicerchia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HackerRank<\/a>. I challenged myself with 2 consecutive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/devpath.pro\/time-management\/past-year-review-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">year plan<\/a>\u00a0and trying to stick to them to get the most out of the spare time I have.<\/p>\n<p>So, in the past few months, I proudly produced and\/or contributed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PUGX\/badge-poser\">Badge-Poser<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fabiocicerchia\/utils\">Common Utilities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fabiocicerchia\/covid19-italy\">COVID-19 Spreading in Italy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fabiocicerchia\/dev-learning-path\">Developer&#8217;s Learning Path<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fabiocicerchia\/nginx-lua\">Nginx &amp; Lua Docker Container<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ariya\/phantomjs\/pull\/15440\">PhantomJS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devpath.pro\/project-management\/practical-estimates\/\">Practical Estimates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fabiocicerchia\/s3backupper\">S3Backupper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fabiocicerchia\/tech-test-checklist\">Tech Test Checklist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fabiocicerchia\/wipe-free-space\">WipeFreeSpace<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that more ideas and projects will come in the near future ?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering what resources helped me the most in\u00a0surviving and taking control even more in the C-role, this is my list for you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SdUewLCHWvU\">A Crystal Ball to Prioritize Technical Debt &#8211; Adam Tornhill<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3jCuYAM\">Accelerate &#8211; Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=0wtvQZijPzg\">Andreessen\u2019s Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering &#8211; <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=0wtvQZijPzg\">Bryan Cantrill<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FcyD85z3JSI&amp;list=WL&amp;index=103&amp;t=0s\">Congrats! You&#8217;re the tech lead &#8211; now what? &#8211; Eryn O&#8217;Neil<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JHGkaShoyNs\">CQRS and Event Sourcing &#8211; Greg Young<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/m20KBFUuw-w\">Depression and Burnout: the Hardest Refactor I\u2019ve ever done &#8211; J\u00e9r\u00f4me Petazzoni<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3WBqBVl\">Growing Software &#8211; Louis Testa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@fesja\/learnings-from-80-startup-ctos-88ddb5f9c024\">Learnings from 80 startup CTOs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Q7dZTw\">Making Work Visible &#8211; Dominica DeGrandis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3WQ7s1w\">Managing Humans &#8211; Michael Lopp<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YWvIRn\">Managing the Unmanageable &#8211; Mickey Mantle, Ron Lichty<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QYBRifsWHD0\">Mixed Paradigms: The Method to Madness &#8211; Venkat Subramaniam<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3jGcKOT\">NoEstimates &#8211; Vasco Duarte<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yIPbE7BssOs&amp;list=WL&amp;index=93&amp;t=0s\">Rethinking the Developer Career Path &#8211; Randall Koutnik<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GAFZcYlO5S0\">Software Architecture vs. Code &#8211; Simon Brown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@kellan\/surviving-being-senior-tech-management-aa6654efd027\">Surviving being senior (tech) management.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PZJ1wx\">The Art of Being Right &#8211; Arthur Schopenhauer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Q1v4xS\">The Art of War &#8211; Sun Tzu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hMz6QDURQOM&amp;list=WL&amp;index=86&amp;t=0s\">The Critical Career Path Conversation &#8211; John Riviello<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Cb1CQm\">The Manager&#8217;s Path &#8211; Camille Fournier<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pAbU3WJ-NBw&amp;list=WL&amp;index=87&amp;t=0s\">The New Manager Death Spiral &#8211; Michael Lopp<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Q0NzTl\">The Passionate Programmer &#8211; Chad Fowler<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.12factor.net\/\">The Twelve-Factor App<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtworks.com\/radar\">ThoughtWorks Technology Radar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fastmonkeys.com\/2014\/06\/18\/minimum-viable-product-your-ultimate-guide-to-mvp-great-examples\/\">Your ultimate guide to Minimum Viable Product (+great examples)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I thank\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/giuliodedonato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giulio<\/a>\u00a0for this new challenge, of joining Radical, having good time and letting me grow even more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s do big (coding) things now! ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Extra link of similar experiences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-innovation\/ill-never-be-a-chief-technology-officer-again-unless-it-s-for-my-own-company-bbf2b767726a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I\u2019ll Never Be a Chief Technology Officer Again\u2026 Unless It\u2019s for My Own Company<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.blog\/2021\/02\/08\/moving-from-designer-to-developer-stack-overflow\/\">I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left Skuola.net as CTO to join Radical (formerly BAGBNB) as Engineer. TL;DR I jumped boat, changed role, changed tech stack, I&#8217;m enjoying a bit more of tranquillity, I have a bit more family time, I got my (dev) passion back! Way to go folks ? Long Story I&#8217;m just sharing some reasons for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[59,115,108,116],"aioseo_notices":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"fabio","author_link":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/author\/fabio"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/category\/career\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Career<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Career<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/category\/career\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">career<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/category\/career\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">cto<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/category\/career\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">management<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/category\/career\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">programming<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">career<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">cto<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">management<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">programming<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 6, 2020","modified":"Updated on February 13, 2024"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 6, 2020 9:20 am","modified":"Updated on February 13, 2024 8:31 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}