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Oct
16

πŸ¦Έβ€β™‚οΈ Introducing the Ambassador Programme: Your Opportunity to Shape the Future of CTO Craft

How you can help the CTO Craft community?
3 min read
Oct
14

πŸ‘©β€πŸš€ Drawing Strategy, Challenging Leaders, Blame Culture, Retaining Staff, Cutting AWS Costs, Why We Worry, Appetites vs Estimates: TMW #402

Plus our Spilling the AI Tea report, events in your area, and more
7 min read
Oct
07

πŸ§‘β€πŸŽ¨ Knowing-Doing Gap, Flat Tech Teams, Data-based Decisions, Monkey Business, Abundance, Busywork: TMW #401

London 2025 ticket launch! Discount inside...
6 min read
Sep
30

πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ Organisational Culture, Self-Reflection, Friction and Drag, Probation Periods, ADRs, Kindness, Good vs Bad Dates: TMW #400

Eight whole years! Plus, next CTO Craft events...
8 min read
Sep
23

πŸ›©οΈ Blameless Cultures, Escalations, Stop Coding, Team Morale, AI-made Tests, Slump Mode, Expert Power: TMW #399

It's conference week! Plus, leader/team pay disparity poll results
7 min read
Sep
16

πŸ§›β€β™‚οΈ Haunted Developers, Premature Scaling, Aggressively Helpful Teams, Scope Management, Copy-Paste Agile, Bullshit, 8 Mile: TMW #398

Are you the highest-paid person on your team?
7 min read
Sep
09

πŸ§Ÿβ€β™‚οΈ Zombie Processes, Bad Decisions, Slow OKRs, Behavioural Interviews, Goldilocks Zone, Sleep vs Creativity: TMW #397

Tech budget poll results and Berlin conference details
7 min read
Sep
02

πŸ“ Evil Dependencies, Manager Antipatterns, Toxic Teams, Career Growth Plans, Engineers in Support, AI for Incident Responses: TMW #396

Tech budgets - how much control do you have?
8 min read
Aug
26

⛹️‍♀️ Burnout, Strategy, Biases, EDI Must Not Die, Johari Windows, Red Folders, NHIs, Time Management: TMW #395

Results of our burnout survey, Berlin details and lots of links!
7 min read
Aug
19

πŸš΄β€β™‚οΈ Goals vs Plans, Prioritising Assumptions, Cost of Work, Empathy, Crowdstrike Lessons, Error Backlogs, Healing from Burnout: TMW #394

Have you experienced burnout as an engineering leader?
8 min read