On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Many organizations have dozens or hundreds of vice presidents, like Vice > President of Vending Machines and Vice President of Pencil Sharpeners.
Heh. I've certainly been in the VP of Odds and Ends role before. :) A little bit of context. As Stu and Kaldari mentioned, the VP title is fairly common in the US, where it's actually often situated below the "C-level" in the org. The reason Sue and I agreed on the title VP of Engineering/Product for the engineering department has more to do with the organizational vocabulary in this part of the world, where that title does carry a very specific meaning relative to the CTO title. You can read more about the differences in these posts: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/want-to-know-difference-between-a-cto-and-a-vp-of-engineering/ http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/10/cto-vs-vp-engineering.html http://falseprecision.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/10/cto-vs-vp-engin.html Right now, we don't have a CTO, but we do have three Lead Architects in the engineering department (Mark, Brion, and Tim). We may choose to ultimately create a CTO role again, but it would probably be different from the way we've treated that role in the past (as architectural lead/visionary and process/delivery manager combined into one person). We may also need to split the product/engineering responsibilities if scale requires it. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
