{ "item_title" : "Claude Code for CTOs", "item_author" : [" Javier Rayon "], "item_description" : "Your engineers are already using AI. Now lead the rollout - or watch it happen to you.Updated August 2026 - Includes Claude 5 family models Opus/Sonnet/FableEvery CTO, VP of Engineering, and tech lead faces the same questions in 2026: How do I introduce Claude Code across my team without breaking workflows? What does it really cost at scale? How do I measure ROI? How do I govern security when an agent reads production code?Tutorials do not answer these questions. Vendor decks do not. Claude Code for CTOs does.Following the success of Claude Code: Getting Started and Advanced Claude Code Tips, the author brings together in this book all the experience gained as Chief AI Officer at Sesame HR, where he leads a product and engineering team of more than 100 people. Sesame HR is one a fast-growing scale-ups, recognized by Chargebee as an AI Pioneer and as one of the companies adopting AI most rapidly across its processes. The first complete playbook for adopting AI-powered development in a real engineering organization - 22 chapters, 5 appendices, 52,000 words distilled from leading the agentic transition of a 50-engineer team across a 4M lines codebase. No hype. Only what works when 50 developers use the same tool the same day. What you will learn:The adoption playbook: pilot, rollout, and scale - from 3 to 100 developers - with checklists and milestones that get buy-in instead of backlash.The business case with real numbers: API vs. Max pricing, break-even points, ROI models your CFO will accept.The vibecoded-app problem: what to do when a non-engineer ships a prototype and the CEO wants it live by Friday.Security, compliance, governance: what your CISO needs to approve and the policies that keep auditors off your back.The harness - your control layer: memory, permissions, hooks, isolation. The four layers that turn we are experimenting into we have AI under organizational control.CLAUDE.md for teams: turn one file into organizational memory every agent inherits automatically.Legacy and brownfield codebases: a five-phase framework to audit and modernize the 400,000-line monolith nobody fully understands.Context management, parallelization, multi-repo workflows - run agents concurrently across microservices without losing control.Metrics that actually matter: which numbers predict adoption health and which ones lie.Inside the book - 22 chapters in two blocksBlock I - The People Side (Ch. 1-10): the half you bring to your leadership meeting.The CTO's RealityThe Agentic ShiftThe LandscapeThe Business CaseWork MethodologyOnboarding Your TeamMeasuring ImpactThe Vibecoded App ProblemSecurity, Compliance, and GovernanceScaling AdoptionBlock II - The Technical Side (Ch. 11-22): for the CTO who still reads pull requests.The HarnessCLAUDE.mdLegacy CodebasesNew ProjectsContext ManagementParallelizationMulti-Repo SetupMulti-Repo DevelopmentDeploying Claude CodeAutomation and Internal ToolingDesigning Agentic ProductsThe MCP-First FuturePlus 5 appendices: Adoption Checklist, CLAUDE.md Templates, Tool Comparison Matrix, Glossary, Curated Resources.For you if:You are a CTO, VP of Engineering, engineering manager, or tech lead - managing 3 engineers or 100.You want frameworks, not tutorials.You need decisions that survive your board, CFO, CISO, and most skeptical senior engineer.You prefer opinionated advice with trade-offs explained.Start leading your team into the agentic era.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/825/823/9798258232779_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "40.00", "online_price" : "40.00", "our_price" : "40.00", "club_price" : "40.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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