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Jul
22

🌮 Building Relationships, Succession Planning, Peer Groups, Agilesplaining, Story Mapping, Domain Expertise: TMW #390

Announcing Conversations event, Mixers, GenAI survey and more
7 min read
Jul
15

🐄 Pirates and Comanches, Tidy Leadership, Micromanagement, Underperformers, Mob Programming, Rice Farming with AI, Burnout: TMW #389

New Campus Course details, lots of links...
9 min read
Jul
08

🦜 Eng Strategy, Agile on Trial, Complexity, Performance Reviews, Happy Engineers, "Intelligent" Cynicism, Renewing Energy: TMW #388

Our first US Mixer in Boston is coming up this Tuesday - are you in the area?
7 min read
Jul
01

🦩 Leadership Grit, Making Decisions, Goal Setting, Trust, Career Conversations, Sprint Capacity, Sharding: TMW #387

How are you using GenAI tools? We want to know...
8 min read
Jun
24

🪲 Social Cohesion, DevEx Surveys, Manager Blindspots, Real 10x Developers, Software Quality, Splitting Stories, Heroism: TMW #386

What we're currently reading, and events happening this week!
13 min read
Jun
17

🏋 Spontaneously Combustible People, Design Thinking, Influence, Delegating, Tech Debt, Documentation: TMW #385

Crumbs, it's a packed issue... Also - are you joining a Mixer this week?
8 min read
Jun
10

🍅 Gamifying Work, OKRs vs Strategy, Meetings, IC Accountability, Cloud Cost Optimisation, Focus, Burnout: TMW #384

See the full agenda for CTO Craft Con: Berlin
8 min read
Jun
03

🏓 Leadership Anti-Patterns, Cargo Cults, Feedback, Bottleneck Teams, Deadlines, Razors, Imposters: TMW #383

Building a solid support network is vital - learn how we can help!
7 min read
May
27

🦉 Tech Strategy, the Bus Factor, Disappointment, Behavioural Interviews, Judging Risk, Ghost Bus, Making Mistakes: TMW #382

We want to hear about your engineering strategy! Drop us a line
8 min read
May
20

🏀 Engineering Strategy, Performance Reviews, Maker vs Manager, Onboarding, Scheduling, OverflowAI, CTO Coaching: TMW #381

Plus details of our Berlin conference and Roundtables event in the autumn
8 min read