How to get leadership buy-in on your tech strategy

For some Staff+ engineers, technical strategy development is an expectation, and not an easy one to navigate.

Successfully creating and delivering on a long-term technical strategy often requires buy-in from senior leadership. Without it, ideas can quickly become undermined before they even start, or initiatives can become defunded if the business benefit is not demonstrated.

Using an example from my previous company, where I was part of a group of engineers that designed and built a company-wide analytics event platform for internal and customer-facing analytics use cases, I’ll demonstrate how to get leadership buy-in. 

Clear framing of the problem

Effective technical strategy is often in service of some broader business or customer problem.

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