đ Engineering Metrics, Technical Documentation, Difficult People, Introducing Levels, Software Costs: TMW #202 by CTO Craft
Hello again!
The CTO Craft team has been busy gearing up for our big announcement at 3pm GMT today. We will officially be announcing the theme of the Spring CTO Craft Con: Delivery, Processes and Metrics, as well as the first ten names on our line up.
The programme will feature 18 amazing sessions and over 30 speakers, with keynotes, panels and fireside chats from some of the best in the business. Â Gain actionable insights into how the greatest software organisations in the world build, measure, plan and deliver products and applications.
Keep your eyes peeled on Slack and our Official Website and Socials to be first in the know and please take a moment to share the news! A simple RT from 3pm would be amazing:
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This Fridayâs Bytes event will be a panel on Technical Documentation, with CTOs Evelina Vrabie, Fergus Doyle and Io James:
đ CTO Craft Bytes - Tools & Processes for Effective Technical Documentation - Fri February 19th, 12:30 GMT
Have a great week!
Andy @ CTO Craft
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From our Partners
Engineering Metrics Scorecard - from LinearB
The best engineering leaders bring data to their weekly management meetings. This downloadable slide template helps development leaders organize team performance and translate engineering metrics in a way executives understand.
Culture & People
What Motivates Difficult People
When a person acts disruptively in the workplace, coworkers are often quick to label that person as difficult. But in most cases, itâs not people that are difficult, but rather their behavior. People will often use difficult behavior if, in the past, itâs helped them get what they want or need.
How to Hire Your First Leaders and Clean Up When You Get it Wrong
You made it! Your startup has some early traction and now youâve hired your first leaders to help grow the company. Trouble is that things arenât going as planned.
Improving Organizational Agility with Self-Management
Key Takeaways More and more, companies should question "why" they practice or intend to learn agile ways of solving their problems Bottlenecks can be encountered during an agile transformation in a company; through a "diamond" set of lenses, you can understand what may prevent your agility from thri
How We Introduced Levels to Our Engineering Organisation without Losing People
The good thing about levels, is the transparency. When itâs clear to people whatâs expected of them, stress goes down. Itâs much easier to give frequent feedback with reference. âRemember that expectation from the list? I think you can improve in it by doing this and thatâ.
About our Partners
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Amazon Web Services, The Scale Factory, 101 Ways, YLD, LinearB, Albany Partners, Skiller Whale, iTechArt Group and PGS Software
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Leadership & Self-management
How To Be Strategic (book review)
Reading the great recommendation by Richard Rumelt â author of âGood Strategy, Bad Strategyâ â encouraged me to pick up âHow To Be Strategicâ.
Look Ahead
When youâre driving a car, you shouldnât focus on only the metre ahead of you. When youâre walking, you donât put your entire focus on your next step.
Remaining Technical as an Engineering Leader
The question âhow technically hands-on should I be as a team leader?â comes up frequently in my conversations with engineering leads.
On Leadership: Why building trust is the core of every successful team
This is part of the ongoing blog series on leadership and management as seen through the lens of competitive sports that was introduced via the blog post: âWhy Pro Sports is a Useful Analytical Tool for Business Leadership and Managementâ.
Agile, Engineering & Product
Basal Cost of software
In my opinion, the development cost of each feature in a product can be divided as follows: The direct development cost of the feature or initial cost. A weekly or monthly cost only associated with the existence of this feature in our system.
Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
I am often asked what I mean when I say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out. Letâs unpack the statement. The oldest reference on the topic I know of dates back to 1979 in a book by Zelkowitz, Shaw, and Gannon entitled Principles of software engineering and design.
Change. Chapter two. by Simon Powers
Before I defined the Agile Mindset, the Agile industry mostly used pictures of Yoda or other spiritual representations of what it meant to embody the agile ways of working. It seemed to be a mythical abstract quality that was hard to define and was often glossed over in agile discussions.
Writing good code by understanding cognitive load
Programming is full of dogma. Programmers are so often self-reflective and obsessed with the 'new way of doing things'. It can make programming feel like a cottage industry dedicated to best practice and leadership, patterns and practices and trying to write the 'right' code.
What Else?
Boxâs VP Engineering on Biohacks For A Better Career
Tomas Barreto, VP of Engineering at Box, takes biohacking seriously. Like sequencing-his-genome, running-currents-through-his-body seriously. But donât call it a hobby or a side project.
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Have an amazing week!
Andy