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🥑 Metrics to Meaning, Technical Communication, Junior Pipeline, Remote Team Cheat Codes, Legacy Code, Staying Resilient: TMW #483

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Thank you to Sonar for sponsoring this week's TMW - code verification tuned for the agentic era.

Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the week!

What an amazing time we had in Toronto last week - a huge, huge thanks to everyone who came out, the wonderful speakers and panelists, our sponsors and the ever-amazing CTO Craft events team. We'll be back in 2027, watch this space!

Next up in the CTO Craft events calendar is Conversations: Berlin on June 23rd, which is coming up very fast! The format is a number of expert-led roundtables on topics like:

  • Delivery under pressure
  • Security without slowdown
  • Burnout as a systems failure
  • Shipping with agents

Tickets are very limited for this one, so if you're interested in joining, get in quick:

Conversations Roadshow: Berlin
Join CTO Craft in Berlin for the Conversations Roadshow with peer led roundtables, senior facilitators, networking, and insights you’ll use straight away.
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That's it, let's look at some links....

Andy @ CTO Craft

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Reads of the Week

Barely Treading Water
Carolyn, my chief of staff, sat on the couch as I ran into my office. The Palo Alto building wasn’t built for tech; it’d been adapted to support the use case ov
Rands in ReposeName *
TBM 422: Exception, Presence, Delegation
It has driven me to some “back to basics” thinking. One model I’ve been playing with lately is the triad of Exception, Presence, and Delegation. The ideas aren’t new, but it has sparked some good conversations and thoughts.t
The Beautiful MessJohn Cutler

Leadership, Strategy & Business

From Metrics to Meaning
How to turn a dashboard into a story your team actually believes in
Fish Food for ThoughtMike Fisher
Finding Your Voice: A Guide to Technical Communication
If you’re nervous about communicating your ideas, either in a formal presentation setting, or more informally, in meetings and small group conversations, this brief guide is for you. It’s a simple collection of thoughts and ideas; practical steps that you can take to build confidence, or feel more secure.
Scott LogicColin Eberhardt
Run the Leadership Diff
Unfortunately, tech leaders don’t really have version control for their work. Months of hard work pass, and yet you cannot easily show the “release notes” for it. How can you stay on course when yo…
Aviv Ben-Yosef
The un-hateable engineering managers
The un-hateable engineering managers
manager.devAnton Zaides

Culture, People & Teams

AI didn’t kill your junior pipeline. You did | Andrew Murphy
AI didn’t kill the junior pipeline; companies did, because someone saw Claude write a for loop and decided that meant they could stop training humans. The result is an industry cheerfully pulling the ladder up behind itself, hollowing out its seniors, and outsourcing its entire talent strategy to vendors that will eventually triple the price. If you don’t hire juniors now, don’t act surprised in five years when you’re surrounded by AI-generated code nobody understands and trying to buy senior engineers from a market everyone else forgot to replenish.
Andrew Murphy
Hard Mode
Cheat codes for leading remote teams
High-Impact EngineeringRoman Nikolaev
Do Small Engineering Teams Need Performance Reviews?
Yes, but not the kind you’re thinking of.
Thriving In EngineeringAlex Ponomarev
Diagnosing difficult behaviour
When the same conversation keeps repeating with different people, the problem is usually structural - and this guide will help you tell when it isn’t.
Blog for Engineering ManagersStephane Moreau
6 Steps to Managing Lazy Employees
How to Transform “Lazy” Employees into High Performers
Level Up CodingSéverin Bruhat

Technology, Operations & Delivery

The Ten Commandments of Maintaining Legacy Code
Writing new software is fun but a minor part of the software engineering job. Let’s talk about the real meat of the job. Legacy code.
Scarlet InkDavid Anderson
Engineering Metrics for Beginners
Get an understanding of table-stakes engineering metrics.
Joseph GefrohJoseph Gefroh
How to Finish Engineering Projects Early Without Added Stress
A real-world case study on using the critical chain methodology to finish projects early without added stress.
Engineering LeadershipGregor Ojstersek and Karol Wójciszko
Being oncall taught me everything - Yao Yue
Being oncall taught me everything
Yao Yue

Stress, Wellbeing & Growth

How to Stay Resilient in a Difficult Job: 7 Science-Informed Strategies
Learn how to stay resilient in a difficult job with poor management, shift work, low morale, or constant stress. Seven practical, science-informed strategies to protect your wellbeing, motivation, and sense of control.
Andi Roberts - Executive Coach | Leadership Trainer | FacilitatorAndi Roberts
What If Stress Is A Choice?
And if it is, what are you choosing?
Thriving In EngineeringAlex Ponomarev
You’ll lose your job in 2027.
Assume that your current role is close to its expiration date.
Elena's Growth ScoopElena Verna

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Have an amazing week!

Andy

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Andy Skipper