#111 - Organising for Impact feat. Eric Bowman // CTO @ King

Output → Outcome → Impact | Product + Tech | Adjacent Possibilities
How do we actually organize people to consistently deliver value and enjoy the process? This, Eric Bowman (CTO @ King) says, is the core challenge facing any CTO. In this thought-provoking episode, Eric shares insights from his remarkable career in gaming (The Sims, King), e-commerce (Zalando), and navigation technology (TomTom), offering a unique perspective on building high-performing teams and effective tech organizations.

Listen in to explore:
🔄 Outcome AND Outputs → Impact (ala Kent Beck’s Universal Value Streams)
🤖 Theory of Adjacent Possibility + Why AI isn’t there yet
⚖️ Product + Tech: Single-threaded (Amazon) vs. Dual Role (Marty Cagan or Google)
🎯 Goals: Kanban-Style Stack Ranking that limits Work-in-Progress
📈 ROI of Tech: Does it increase revenue or accelerate delivery?
🧘 Discipline = Action & Commitment

• is it time to rethink small teams and platform engineering?
Have a listen. Eric has such a great combination of great combination of experience 🦾, knowledge 📚 and wisdom 🧠.

Listen here (alphalist.com/podcast/111-eric-bowman-cto-king)

Timestamps

() Introduction
() Eric Bowman's Career Journey
() The Core CTO Challenge
() Outcome AND Output → Impact
() Accountability Over Output
() Universal Value Streams
() Product + Tech Leadership Models + Dynamics
() Single Threaded Leaders vs. Dual Roles
() CTO Role: Balancing Today and Tomorrow
() CTO Role: Economics of Decision-Making
() Team Organization: Autonomy and Rethinking Small Teams
() Causal Chains, Goals and Feedback Loops
() Discipline = Action + Commitment
() Prioritise Goals with Kanban-Style Stack Ranking
() Platform Engineering: Help or Hindrance? (DORA-inspired)
() CAUTION: Compensating Measures
() Tech Investments: ROI and Value Creation
() AI and The Theory of Adjacent Possibilities
() Why Eric Dislikes the Word ‘Innovation’
() Quickfire Round: Tools and Tech

#111 - Organising for Impact feat. Eric Bowman // CTO @ King

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