Fractional CTO
Hire a fractional CTO.
I bridge the gap between people and technology, transforming product ideas into actionable strategies and budgets into measurable outcomes. As your Fractional CTO, I drive alignment across teams and systems, ensuring your technology decisions empower your business goals and deliver real results. With a strong development background and still a hands-on programmer, I am not distant from the work, instead I understand the nuances, the trade-offs. As a software architect and designer of enterprise systems, applications and startup products, I can help you navigate the complexity of trade-offs, maximising the direction and outcomes.
After checkout - Return to this page and book your session below in the scheduler.
Depending on the option you select below, the time we spend together will change, and the outcome will be determined.
Hire Jonathan as quickly as Add to Cart, Checkout, Book a date.
Hire a fractional CTO.
I bridge the gap between people and technology, transforming product ideas into actionable strategies and budgets into measurable outcomes. As your Fractional CTO, I drive alignment across teams and systems, ensuring your technology decisions empower your business goals and deliver real results. With a strong development background and still a hands-on programmer, I am not distant from the work, instead I understand the nuances, the trade-offs. As a software architect and designer of enterprise systems, applications and startup products, I can help you navigate the complexity of trade-offs, maximising the direction and outcomes.
After checkout - Return to this page and book your session below in the scheduler.
Depending on the option you select below, the time we spend together will change, and the outcome will be determined.
Hire Jonathan as quickly as Add to Cart, Checkout, Book a date.
Hire a fractional CTO.
I bridge the gap between people and technology, transforming product ideas into actionable strategies and budgets into measurable outcomes. As your Fractional CTO, I drive alignment across teams and systems, ensuring your technology decisions empower your business goals and deliver real results. With a strong development background and still a hands-on programmer, I am not distant from the work, instead I understand the nuances, the trade-offs. As a software architect and designer of enterprise systems, applications and startup products, I can help you navigate the complexity of trade-offs, maximising the direction and outcomes.
After checkout - Return to this page and book your session below in the scheduler.
Depending on the option you select below, the time we spend together will change, and the outcome will be determined.
Hire Jonathan as quickly as Add to Cart, Checkout, Book a date.
Please Note: Please do this after checkout and use the same name and email address when you book the time. The appointment will only be provisional until the checkout is complete, matching the same email address.
What you get
Legacy Code oversight: technical direction and consultancy
Project Oversight: Manage scope, budgets and deliverables
Team Building: Creating, augmenting and fostering teams
Strategic Leadership: Roadmaps, long term vision
Architecture and Design: Application and platform design skills
Discovery (1 Hour)
This session serves as an exploratory meeting to uncover the primary challenges and areas for potential growth in your organisation's technology strategy. The focus is on identifying key pain points, technical hurdles, and overarching goals.
Objective: Understand your business context, current technology landscape, and the challenges you face. This might include technical debt, scalability concerns, team misalignment, or strategy gaps.
Process: I’ll ask targeted questions to draw out critical insights and prioritise the issues. I may provide some high-level recommendations during the session, but the main outcome is a pathway toward deeper analysis.
What You Bring: Share any documentation, processes, or technical challenges you believe are central to your concerns.
Outcome
A concise recommendation for the next steps, whether it’s a straightforward solution or an acknowledgement that the problem requires more in-depth exploration.
Consultation (2 Hours)
Building on the Discovery session, this consultation provides a more comprehensive analysis of your situation, focusing on actionable strategies to address your technology challenges.
Session Breakdown:
90 Minutes: You present your current challenges, decisions, and contextual factors.
30 Minutes: I present tailored insights and potential solutions based on the discussion.
Focus Areas:
Strategic alignment between business goals and technical capabilities.
Exploring tradeoffs and opportunity costs of different approaches.
Identifying risks, blockers, and optimal paths forward.
Outcome
You’ll receive specific recommendations and insights into the tradeoffs involved, ensuring you can make informed decisions with a full understanding of potential impacts.
Development (4 Hours)
This hands-on service is ideal for organisations needing immediate guidance on development challenges—whether at the team, architectural, or strategic level.
Session Breakdown:
2 Hours (Live Engagement): We work online together to discuss and dissect key issues. This includes troubleshooting technical challenges, assessing team performance, or refining your architecture.
3 x 1-Hour Interviews: Interviews with key team members or stakeholders to gain a well-rounded understanding of the context, challenges, and dynamics.
1 Hour (Findings Presentation): I present a detailed analysis, including identified issues, recommendations, and a roadmap for next steps.
Key Areas:
Team dynamics, such as interpersonal conflicts or misaligned objectives.
Coding challenges, including best practices, technical debt resolution, or scalability.
Management or leadership bottlenecks.
Outcome
Actionable solutions tailored to the nuances of your situation, ensuring alignment between technical strategies, team effectiveness, and business goals.
6 Months (fractional role)
20 hours per month. The time will be spent as we agree to spend it for maximum reward in achieving desired outcomes.
12 Months (fractional role)
20 hours per month. The time will be spent as we agree to spend it for maximum reward in achieving desired outcomes.
Please Note
There may not be enough time to go over everything in detail. If this is the case, and your situation is more complex, we will know this and reduce the scope, or you may need to purchase another service to extend. This is what makes this service-as-a-product powerful. We can extend the product with a click of a button.
Every service checkout paid, will deliver results, it is merely a case of whether you want to extend the scope and reach. You decide. Recommendations will be based on the work and requirements, not upselling. You will know the difference.
Service
building specifications/functions/architecture
strategy and implementation plans
gap analysis, direction, and ROI calculations
economics, budgets and plans
hr, team building and management
cross-team collaboration and communication
technology trends, practices and methods
value-systems, organisational values and industrial psychology
process development, bpr, analysis, lean, agile
