Jean Barmash on Off-Shore Teams, Aligning with Business Priorities and Setting Boundaries

Jean Barmash is currently VP of Engineering at Merchantry, an eCommerce Technology startup.  He has over 15 years of experience in software industry, and has been part of 4 startups over the last seven years, 3 as CTO / VPE and one of which he co-founded.  Prior to his entrepreneurial adventures, Jean held a variety of progressively senior roles in development, integration consulting, training, and team leadership.  He worked for such companies as Trilogy, Symantec, Infusion and Alfresco, where he consulted to Fortune 100 companies like Ford, Toyota, Microsoft, Adobe, IHG, Citi, BofA, NBC, and Booz Allen Hamilton.  Jean is passionate about raising the level of technical leadership, and for the last five years has been organizing CTO School meetup, an organization he co-founded and grew to over 1,600 members.  Jean speaks frequently at conferences, meetups, mentors at startup accelerators (ERA, Techstars), blogs (infrequently) at http://hellofoobar.com, and tweets almost just as infrequently at @jbarmash.  Jean lives in NY with his awesome and supportive wife and two hilariously-funny kids.  This is a great episode if: You are a technical leader who works with offshore teams You want to ensure your team(s) are aligned with business priorities You are looking for new ways to measure success What you will hear about: Off-shore teams Tactics to align with business goals with team processes Batman Links: Cynefin Related Interviews: Ken Judy Jessica Barnett