Tech team is about twenty people. A formal hierarchy emerges, where the CTO has a number of "direct reports" who in turn manage people.

• Programming The CTO does little to no programming.
• Architecture The CTO wants to be informed on the architecture, but isn’t making all decisions anymore.
• Team alignment Team alignment becomes even more important. The CTO’s attention shifts from alignment of the whole team to alignment of their direct reports.
• C-level alignment This is a structured and formal process.
• Time horizon A year.
• Size of tech team Around twenty.
• Typical phase of the company The company is scaling up. They’re not looking at individual customers any more, but at segments of customers.

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