The CTO Podcast · Insights & Strategies for Chief Technology Officers Navigating the C-Suite while Balancing Technical Strategy, Team Management, & Innovation

Aliza Carpio, Director of Product Management Data Platform at JLL Technologies: The Code of Collaboration and Navigating Open Source

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Carpio argues that experiments should start cheap, even with a PowerPoint mockup.

Etienne opens the show by framing the conversation around what helps CTOs become better leaders. He introduces Elisa Carpio and quickly moves into her background and her long-standing care for communities, including women-owned micro-businesses. The discussion takes up open-source communities without romanticizing them. It treats codes of conduct as practical infrastructure, not decoration. Elisa and Etienne talk through why inclusive conversations matter when people are building together. The episode keeps returning to the CTO as someone who has to hold technical work and human dynamics at the same time. That makes the product-management side of the conversation feel less abstract. They talk about the relationship between product management and engineering as something that depends on trust, not just process. The conversation also gives attention to the trifecta of product management and development. It does not pretend that alignment happens automatically. It points to the work required to make intent legible across roles. That theme becomes even more visible when the discussion turns to remote communication. Elisa describes how the same person can come across differently in person, on a Zoom call, or in Slack. Tone, humor, mood, and frustration all change what other people hear. The episode also spends time on the pressure to make the written word and the spoken word align. That point lands because it is framed as a skill that has to be learned and maintained. Remote work is treated as workable, but not effortless. The conversation suggests that leaders now have to ask more often whether they were understood the way they intended. The show keeps its focus on practical leadership rather than theory. It leaves with a clear sense that communication is part of the job, not an accessory to it. The result is a conversation that stays grounded in real working relationships inside technical organizations.

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A grounded CTO Podcast discussion of open-source communities, product-management alignment, and how remote work changes communication.

Elisa Carpio's CTO Podcast conversation sits right where product management, engineering, and community norms meet. She moves through open-source communities, codes of conduct, inclusive conversation, and the CTO role, then ties that back to product management and engineering…

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You want a steadier read on how product, engineering, and CTOs work together.

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