Technical Strategy
Go beyond executing strategy and gain tools to shape strategy, educate peers, and guide the product roadmap to deliver business impact.
Gain a practical toolkit to develop and strengthen your strategic thinking so you can drive more impact. Learn how to define a technical strategy, optimize it based on company context, assess strategic trade-offs more effectively, and ultimately execute strategically and ensure your technical team is best supporting the company strategy.
To join Technical Strategy you need to be a Reforge Member.
Built By Top Executives
Harsh Sinha
CTO of Wise, Formerly Paypal, eBay Inc.
Harsh is currently at Wise where he sits as a board member and CTO. Prior to Wise, he was the Director of Product at PayPal, as well as a Director of Software Engineering at eBay. Harsh is also an angel investor and advises early-stage start-ups on product/market fit and scaling.
Bryan Dove
CEO at CommerceHub, Formerly Skyscanner, AWS, Skype, Microsoft
Bryan is the CEO at CommerceHub. Before CommerceHub he was the CEO of Skyscanner, where his role included leading and growing Skyscanner’s engineering team at an accelerated scale across ten global offices. Bryan has more than two decades of CTO and technology leadership experience, including successful tenures at Microsoft and Amazon Web Services where he led organizations at scale.
What you get as a Reforge Member
Reforge membership combines cohort-based programs with a year-round experience to help you learn, execute, and scale. Participation in Technical Strategy and access to the content and community of all programs are included.
On-Demand
Access content from all programs
Step-by-step projects to help you execute
Content releases, events, and updates
Connect with peers solving similar problems
Cohort Based Programs
4 or 6 weeks, part-time, virtual, and intense
Built and led by executives
Application focused
Live case studies with a cohort of peers
Technical Strategy Program Format
Deep Learning Guided By A Leading Executive
Each week you will go through 2 to 3 hours of self-paced material covering actionable frameworks and proven systems for B2B & B2C companies that were created by leading executives. The topics this program covers are:
Week 1: THE TECHNICAL STRATEGY PORTFOLIO
You will learn The Types of Engineering Work framework, which will help you assess your own portfolio, communicate the value of work across critical stakeholders, and negotiate time and resources for scale more effectively.
Week 2: COMPANY AND TECHNICAL STRATEGY CALIBRATION
Learn how to connect cross-company strategies like acquisition, monetization, and finance to your technical decisions. Learn how different company archetypes approach funding, financial objectives, and resource allocation, all of which will impact your technical strategy and portfolio of work.
week 3: STRATEGIC TECHNICAL TRADE-OFFS
Learn how to participate more effectively in early-stage strategy discussions by generating better ideas for technical solutions and improving your abilities to analyze long-term technical trade-offs.
week 4: STRATEGIC EXECUTION
Learn how to manage tech debt systematically and strategically, while delivering customer value continuously. Gain practical tools to help you best sequence work to prioritize customer value, leverage shorter iteration cycles, and define clear milestones around what really matters.
Live Case Studies Each Week
Each week, you will go deeper by attending a live online session via Zoom where we will walk through a real-life scenario applying the concepts you learned.
Hear how industry leaders from companies like Tripadvisor, Slack, Patreon, and more have addressed similar challenges.
Former Reforge guests include:
Nick Allardice CPO at change.org
Adam Fishman CPO at Imperfect Foods Jiaona Zhang VP Product at Webflow Selina Tobaccowala CDO at Openfit Justin Bauer EVP Product at Amplitude Ely Lerner VP Product at Chime Kelly Mayes Sr Dir Product at Roblox Mindy Zhang Dir Product at Oscar Bela Stepanova VP of Product at Iterable
Connect With Peers Solving Similar Problems
Every week there will be optional opportunities to connect with peers in the cohort solving similar problems to you. Join a small group to discuss applying the concepts, attend/host a community deep-dive session on a special topic, or discuss questions within the forum and Slack.
Apply the Concepts
Translate the frameworks to your company with active, hands-on exercises, worksheets, and weekly micro-projects. Expect to spend about 2 hours a week on active learning.
A plan for Action
Build a plan that you can take back to your company. Start small, achieve results, and amplify your impact.
Become A Member To Join Technical Strategy
To join this program you need to be a Reforge Member. To participate in our upcoming cohort apply today.
Membership includes participation in a cohort-based program and ongoing access to content from all programs, deep-dive sessions, and a community of vetted peers to help you execute what you learn.
Who this program is for
Engineering managers and senior ICs who work on digital products at companies that have established PMF. See criteria below:
✓ Work on Digital Products
✓ Work at a Company that has Established Product/Market Fit
✓ Strong Initiative
✗ Entry Level
✗ Career Switching
✗ Works at an Agency
In addition to participating in Technical Strategy, get access to everything you need to execute…
Your growth doesn’t stop with the cohort, it just begins. When you join as a Reforge Member, in addition to participating in Technical Strategy, you will get on-demand access to everything you need to execute.
Access All Program Content
Your career doesn’t follow the schedule of a course. Access content across all programs when you need it:
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Step-by-Step Projects
Go from learning to execution with step-by-step projects to guide implementation.
Content releases, events, and updates
New projects, cases, and examples across topics in Product, Growth, and Marketing
Deep dive sessions
Throughout the year, Reforge partners host live sessions to examine critical topics and coach community members through their most difficult issues
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Brandon Smith, Product Manager, Kiva
Reforge 2019
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Reforge 2020