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
Jul
12

🍊 O'Reilly Partnership, Data-driven Negotiation, PAGNI, RACI, Curiosity, Low Morale, Remote Pairing: TMW #224 by CTO Craft

Hello all, welcome to the week! Huge excitement here as CTO Craft welcomes O'Reilly as our newest sponsor.
5 min read
Jul
05

🍇 Mental Health, Destroying Teams, Rest, Timezones, Spotify Model, Status Reports: TMW #223 by CTO Craft

Howdy all! Welcome to the week Hopefully you're going to be able to slow down and recharge over
5 min read
Jun
28

🍉 Time Management, Vroom, Inverse Conway, Team Maturity, Working Hours, No Code Reviews: TMW #222 by CTO Craft

Greetings! Hope you had a great weekend We're going to be pausing the weekly Bytes events over the
6 min read
Jun
21

🥭 Crafting a Tech Strategy, African Tech, Domains, Cognitive Systems, Termination, Decisions, Managing Up: TMW #221 by CTO Craft - Issue #221

Hello again! This week sees the release of our most in-depth study of tech strategy - we've drawn
6 min read
Jun
14

🦞 Nearshoring, Holacracy, Unplugging, Availability Bias, Decision Trees, Blindspots: TMW #220 by CTO Craft

Hi there! Welcome to the week This week's edition of TMW is absolutely packed, so just a short
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Jun
07

🥝 Operating Cadence, Social Anxiety, Work Satisfaction, Slack Nightmares, Neurodiversity, SWAG, Pull Requests: TMW #219 by CTO Craft

Greetings! Firstly, a massively warm welcome to O'Reilly Media, who've joined our list of Platinum Sponsors
6 min read
Jun
01

🤭 Correction! TMW #217 by CTO Craft

Hello again! You might have noticed we included a brilliant post by Simon Wardley in today's issue, but
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May
31

🧃 Employer Branding, Delegation, Outsourcing, Org Culture, Interruptions, Spotify Model Fallacy: TMW #217 by CTO Craft

Greetings! This week's Bytes panel will feature leaders from Cuvva, MOO and Rest Less, discussing the changes they
7 min read
May
24

🍩 Onboarding, Back-to-back Zooms, Communities of Practice, Self-management, Retros, Kanban: TMW #216 by CTO Craft

Hello again! 😀 One of last week's Mentoring Circles conversations focused on the perception of the engineering function within
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May
17

🍊 Loneliness Survey, Dev Experience, Psych Safety, Meeting Summaries, Civility, Feedback Loops: TMW #215 by CTO Craft

Hello again! In the wake of Mental Health Awareness Week here in the UK last week, we got to thinking
6 min read