Andy Skipper

Andy Skipper

United Kingdom
CTO and Coach, beardy know-it-all and daddy, he/him. Also curates CTO Craft Con and helps level up CTOs at CTO Craft
Aug
18

🦍 Leader Narcissism vs Empathy, Managing Senior Devs, Less Stressful Tech Tests, Disposable Code, Remote Manager Burnout: TMW #444

Isolation is a career-killer - let's get out of the weeds
7 min read
Aug
04

🌽 Team vs Scope, LLMs for Leadership, Our Shadows, Psychological Safety, Thunderstorm of Requests, Deadline Highs: TMW #443

How would you rate the level of trust in your team?
8 min read
Jul
28

πŸ“ Coding and Weaving, Complex Strategy, Objectives vs Goals, Team Communication, AI Code Reviews, Productivity Paradox: TMW #442

What does it feel like to be a Circle member?
10 min read
Jul
21

🀿 Creative Strategy, Storytelling Magic, Delegation, DevEx at Amazon, AI Enshittification, the Audience Effect, AI-driven PRDs: TMW #441

Fintech CTOs - come and join us in London in November!
10 min read
Jul
14

πŸ”© Cool Heads, Speedy Decisions, Authoritarian Leaders, Accountability, Tech Debt Spends, Intellectual Self Doubt: TMW #440

Announcing the CTO Craft 100 awards - nominations open
9 min read
Jul
07

πŸ” Strategy Frameworks, Quarterly Planning, Team Health, New Managers, AI-Native Engineering, Healing Burnout: TMW #439

Mentoring Circles spaces available this week!
8 min read
Jun
30

πŸ₯¬ Crisis, Prioritisation, Past vs Future Results, Being the Bad Guy, Team Vibe Archetypes, Impossible Deadlines, EQ: TMW #438

Deep Dives: Managing Upwards and Sideways is this week!
9 min read
Jun
23

🍍 Ruthless Prioritisation, Leadership Neuroscience, Mentoring Juniors, Damn Hard IT Projects, Self-Sabotage: TMW #437

πŸ₯‹Thanks to Aikido for sponsoring this week's TMW - an all-in-one security platform that covers you from code-to-cloud
7 min read
Jun
16

🌽 Good Micromanagement, Word Vomit, Two-Way Doors, Managing B-Players, Guilds, AI-Driven Docs, Illusory Correlation: TMW #436

Should you centralise code ownership?
7 min read
Jun
09

🐠 Vacation Tests, Short vs Long Term Strategy, Delegation, Zero Surprises, Mob AI, Build or Buy, Workplace Stress: TMW #435

How burnt out do you feel right now?
9 min read