Articles by Camille Fournier
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and ChangeCamille steps through increasing levels of management complexity, from how to be managed and what to expect from a manager, to senior leadership.
On the role of CTOCamille discusses the diversity of CTO types and asserts that the CTO should be "the strategic technical executive the company needs in its current stage of evolution." She emphasizes the importance for a CTO to understand the business and have management oversight. She covers: • First, let's start by talking about what a CTO is not. • So, what does a CTO actually DO?
- Are you out of alignment? Examining an often-misunderstood element of success
Camille explains how senior ICs sometimes get stuck because they don't know how to work on projects that are aligned with the success of the organization.
- Sharing Our Engineering Ladder
This is Rent the Runway's career ladder, one of the first to be publicly released. It groups skills into: Technical Skills, Getting Stuff Done, Impact, and Communication & Leadership.
- When is someone ready to manage managers?
Camille provides a detailed look at the journey from manager of ICs to manager of managers: • How to go from line manager to managing managers • How to practice the skills of managing managers without having manager direct reports
- Structural Lessons in Engineering Management
Camille cautions against adhering too rigidly to organizational structures that may not perfectly meet the needs of growing teams.
- An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
A list of 23 non-coding skills that every engineer should focus on to advance their career