Tech Manager Weekly by CTO Craft - Issue #160
Hi everyone!
CTO Craft has two Bytes events this week - tomorrow (Tuesday) we'll be joined by three people with very relevant, recent experience of the CTO job market during the COVID-19 lockdown, and on Friday we'll be talking about some practical ways of dealing with uncertainty with an expert in organisational design. Both will be recorded, so don't worry if you miss either of them!
CTO Craft Bytes - Job Hunting During the Crisis
CTO Craft Bytes - On Navigating Uncertainty
On top of those (!) we'll also be running some Group Discussion events, including one on Wednesday morning on Motivation. Keep your eye on our events page for more info
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/cto-craft-17213363956
We'll also be announcing all new events in the CTO Craft Slack group, so be sure to join if you'd like to hear about them first!
Until next week
Andy @ CTO Craft
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Reads of the Week
How to Define Your Purpose, Vision, Mission, Values, and Key Measures
As companies demand more out of their employees, top talent is demanding more from companies in terms of purpose and engagement—in fact, according to a 2015 Deloitte Survey, 6 out of 10 Millennials stated that they chose to work for their current employers due to their “sense of purpose".
Goal Setting: A Scientific Guide to Setting and Achieving Goals
Goal setting is everywhere in our world. We set goals for our careers, our health, and our lives in general. It seems modern society is always encouraging us to think about the next milestone. However, what we don't think about enough is the science and strategy of how to accomplish your goals.
Culture & People
Engineering is Eating Recruiting...
We're at the end of an era. The era of spam and abusing email is ending. The era of non technical people in charge of building highly technical teams is ending. Coronavirus will accelerate this.
Context over control: the future of remote work
his write-up is going to be about what good context is, why is this is so important in today’s organizations and it’s going to be an absolute prerequisite in the foreseeable future.
Why Yammer Believes the Traditional Engineering Organizational Structure is Dead
Kris Gale, VP of Engineering at Yammer, argues the key to building fast at scale lies in small teams.
Measuring psychological safety
Richard McLeanJul 20 · 6 min readWhat is psychological safety?At Elsevier, our of our top priorities is to develop an inclusive culture built on trust, collaboration, & purpose. To achieve this, we need an environment where people feel psychologically safe.
Leadership & Self-management
Randy Shepherd - Your Engineering Brand is a KPI
At the end of last year at the New York CTO Summit at the Nasdaq, Randy shared a practical and well researched introduction to the importance of your engineering brand as a KPI and ways to improve it.
Don’t let remote leadership bring out the worst in you
With remote leadership, it’s easy to succumb to management practices that hurt our team. Here’s how to avoid doing so.
3 Frameworks For Making Complex Decisions
Life is full of complex decisions: capital purchases, such as a car or a house, planning a vacation, choosing a new job, picking a product strategy, prioritizing roadmaps, hiring someone.
The Mirage That Will Keep You In The Desert
Perfectionism is the height of mechanical thinking.
It is the mirage that will keep you in the desert.
It is the oasis that will never satisfy your thirst.
5 Effective Strategies for Virtual Meetings
Meeting Culture5 Effective Strategies for Virtual MeetingsWe’ve gone virtual! Here are tools and processes to help you lead productive remote meetings.For the vast majority of the world, all work and meetings are now virtual.
Agile, Engineering & Product
Remote Sprint Planning — Remote Agile (6) — Age-of-Product.com
We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns, and we analyzed remote Retrospectives based on Liberating Structures.
You don’t need to stop shipping features to fix technical debt
I’ve been on both sides of the fence with these situations — and when I’ve been on the receiving end (Person B above), fixing the problem is almost always well justified with sound logic yet doesn’t always get the “buy-in” it needs!
Remote-optimised Domain Modelling: The Present and Future
The techniques we use for visual, collaborative domain modelling are designed for in-person events, where everybody is in the same physical space. Teams working remotely have long been excluded from the real power of collaborative domain modelling.
5 Tips for Structuring your Agile Board
The thing I find fascinating is there are hundreds of thousands of agile teams out there. Those teams are reflecting on their workflow to understand how they can improve their product development meaning there are literally millions of learnings every year.
Can a 5-Year-Old Be a Good Tester?
Have you heard the term digital native? The term digital native refers to a person who has grown up in the digital age. For example, my 5-year-old son is a digital native. He knows iPad, Alexa, Google Home, Siri, Android, and other current technologies.
What Else?
It’s Time to Take Octopus Civilization Seriously
Intelligence is a hot topic of discussion these days. Human intelligence. Plant intelligence. Artificial intelligence. All kinds of intelligence.
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Andy