Jan 26, 2026 7 min read

🐫 Ops Pride, Deletion Test, Shape of Leadership, Multipliers vs Heroes, Soft Skills, AI Tech Debt, Cringey Vulnerability: TMW #466

How strong is your vision for engineering?

Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the week!

This week's Community Bytes session is happening on Wednesday Jan 28th at 4pm GMT, and we'll be joined by former Pleo, Monzo, MOO and Healx CTO Meri Williams, Jossie Haines who's led engineering at Apple, Tile and Zynga, and CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber.

We'll be taking a close look at what it means to be a visionary leader, the difference between a roadmap and vision, why it's important to link the vision for engineering to that of the business, balancing vision and delivery and how to communicate a technical vision to non-technical people. As we leap into 2026, this will give you a great insight into how to get your teams on the same page and motivate them towards a common goal. See you there!

That's it, let's look at some links 😄

PS: We have a load of Mixer events coming up next week - take a look to see if we're coming to your city.

Andy @ CTO Craft

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