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Sep
30

🧙‍♂ïļ Organisational Culture, Self-Reflection, Friction and Drag, Probation Periods, ADRs, Kindness, Good vs Bad Dates: TMW #400

Eight whole years! Plus, next CTO Craft events...
8 min read
Sep
23

ðŸ›Đïļ Blameless Cultures, Escalations, Stop Coding, Team Morale, AI-made Tests, Slump Mode, Expert Power: TMW #399

It's conference week! Plus, leader/team pay disparity poll results
7 min read
Sep
16

🧛‍♂ïļ Haunted Developers, Premature Scaling, Aggressively Helpful Teams, Scope Management, Copy-Paste Agile, Bullshit, 8 Mile: TMW #398

Are you the highest-paid person on your team?
7 min read
Sep
09

🧟‍♂ïļ Zombie Processes, Bad Decisions, Slow OKRs, Behavioural Interviews, Goldilocks Zone, Sleep vs Creativity: TMW #397

Tech budget poll results and Berlin conference details
7 min read
Sep
02

🍓 Evil Dependencies, Manager Antipatterns, Toxic Teams, Career Growth Plans, Engineers in Support, AI for Incident Responses: TMW #396

Tech budgets - how much control do you have?
8 min read
Aug
26

â›đïļâ€â™€ïļ Burnout, Strategy, Biases, EDI Must Not Die, Johari Windows, Red Folders, NHIs, Time Management: TMW #395

Results of our burnout survey, Berlin details and lots of links!
7 min read
Aug
19

ðŸšī‍♂ïļ Goals vs Plans, Prioritising Assumptions, Cost of Work, Empathy, Crowdstrike Lessons, Error Backlogs, Healing from Burnout: TMW #394

Have you experienced burnout as an engineering leader?
8 min read
Aug
12

ðŸĪš Better Org Charts, Good Managers, Goal Cascades, Perfectionism vs Productivity, Trunk-Based Development, Brains: TMW #393

Circles relaunch - get in touch if you'd like to hear more!
7 min read
Aug
05

🏋ïļâ€â™€ïļ Leadership Styles, Underperforming Teams, "Oops" Moments, Org Architecture, Bad Code Reviews, Second-Level Thinking: TMW #392

Announcing CTO Craft: Conversations - roundtables, peer-led discussions and more
7 min read
Jul
29

ðŸĶĐ Failing Smart, Decision Frameworks, CT-Nos, Org Debt, Fancy Titles, Scope vs Thoroughness, Team Health Checks: TMW #391

Have you spilled the tea about your use of GenAI yet?
7 min read