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Jan

20

🍇 Barrels and Bottlenecks, Engineering Culture, Doom Loops, Self-Reviews, Risk, Reliability Carrots, Burnout: TMW #415

Early-bird conference tickets are nearly sold out!

Jan 20, 2025

8 min read

Jan

13

🐢 CTO Compensation, Strategy Frameworks, Hitting OKRs, Ownership, Psychological Safety, No Bugs, Failing a Lot: TMW #414

Take part in our annual Compensation Survey!

Jan 13, 2025

7 min read

Jan

06

🐡 Bad Metrics, The Duck-Rabbit, Wardley Mapping, Sync-Ups, Version Control, AI Coding Tools, Luck Surface Area: TMW #413

It's a new year! See you in London or Toronto...

Jan 6, 2025

7 min read

Dec

23

🍗 Adaptivity, Evil OKRs, Engineers Hate Meetings, Adhocracies, Problem Driven Development, Dashboards, Schedule Like a Slasher: TMW #412

From all of us at CTO Craft, have a great festive season!

Dec 23, 2024

6 min read

Dec

16

🍍 Fake Deadlines, Managing Up, SLOs, Creating Joy, Holiday On-Call, Trunk-Based Development, Trauma: TMW #411

Early-bird Toronto tickets now available...

Dec 16, 2024

7 min read

Dec

09

🍌 Team Dynamics, Red Beads, Risk, Chess, Protected Time, Hybrid Work, Code Yellows, Calendar Resets: TMW #410

How would you design the worst company culture?

Dec 9, 2024

8 min read

Dec

02

🦁 DORA on AI, Ladder of Inference, The Details, Bad Days for Devs, Popular IDEs, Outputs vs Outcomes, Gratitude, Skeptoptimism: TMW #409

CTO Craft Con is coming to Toronto!

Dec 2, 2024

7 min read

Nov

25

🐓 SLI vs KPI, Delivering Bad News, Brilliant Jerks, Sys Design Interviews, Example Mapping, Storytelling, Clear Thinking: TMW #408

Plus news about upcoming Circles groups for 2025...

Nov 25, 2024

7 min read

Nov

18

🐡 Reducing Complexity, Delegating, Tiny Strategies, Headcount, DORA Benchmarks, Evolutionary Design, Impostor Syndrome: TMW #407

Plus... New Circles starting soon, conference news, and more

Nov 18, 2024

8 min read

Nov

11

🐅 Cargo Culting, Being Strategic, Retention, Facilitation, Software Moves Forward, Luck Surface Area, Seasonal Overwhelm: TMW #406

Plus performance review survey results...

Nov 11, 2024

8 min read