CTO as a Service Advantages Podcast

In this article, we will focus on our CTO as a Service Podcast. The podcast is about importance of CTO in IT companies. 

Today, the high-tech market is developing exponentially, which attracts a lot of investment, and has begun to cause some problems. One of the most critical problems now is the lack of technical specialists with the necessary experience and expertise. The market of technical specialists is experiencing a severe hunger, which is why software development companies have started offering services such as dedicated team CTO as service. We will tell you about the last of these services today. Also, in the podcast, you can learn how to hire the right CTO and not lose resources by hiring a bad CTO.

About our guest

Matthew Cochran has 24 years of experience as a technical person. Right now, he is the CTO at TRUTHSHIELD and ARTNET, so Artnet connects the world’s art collectors, professionals, and institutions to business-critical data and information, and TRUTHSHIELD is for founders, professional leaders, and executives who run teams to build digital products. Truthshuild his own company, he is the Founder and the CTO. 

When do you need a CTO?

CTO is very important for companies developing products if they want to work effectively, not to do some things over and over again, constantly moving from one technology stack to another, CTO will help with the effective organization of development processes, management of the development team, and other aspects of your organization. So, for example, you cannot gather doctors in a circle and say that you are a hospital and send doctors to do something. You need a person who can effectively organize and control the work of specialists.

Why has CTO as a service become more popular nowadays?

This is all happening out of necessity; now we have a lot of companies, the development market is experiencing a huge hunger for IT specialists and CTO. The software product development market is developing exponentially, and there are not enough necessary specialists to fill the needed positions. Partly, the market played a role, but many startups also realized that they needed help to organize some processes within the company to improve efficiency. CTO is a rather expensive resource, so it is often much cheaper and easier to simply hire CTO as a service to at least temporarily fill this position in your organization. Of course, you want to avoid all those mistakes that you can make at the beginning without an experienced specialist mentor in the person of CTO.

In-house or Outsourced CaaS. When which is better? 

According to Matthew, most often CTO as service, that is, outsourcing CTO tasks, is the best solution if you want to find a person with certain expertise and if you need a person at the very beginning of your organization, for example, for a startup. But if your company is developing something peculiar, then maybe you’d better nurture your in-house CTO. Of course, it is most profitable to outsource a CTO since you can always hire him from anywhere in the world and pay him less than you could pay a CTO that is located in the USA Europe. If you are not a technical person, then it is essential at the very beginning to have a person with a lot of technical experiences, such as a CTO. Still, he is quite expensive, so in this case, CTO as service is an excellent solution for you.

But there is a problem in hiring an outsource CTO. As for the services provided, it is essential to understand as early as possible whether this specialist has the expertise and experience that he allegedly owns since anyone from the street can put on a sign and say that he is CTO.