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Feb
17

🐖 Storytelling, Having All the Answers, Annoying Your Engineers, Trunk-Based Development, Resilience and Anxiety: TMW #419

See some of the conversations happening in the CTO Craft community...
8 min read
Feb
10

🦧 End of Programming, Speaking Strategy, Context-Switching, Task Forces, Team Longevity, Energy Tracking: TMW #418

Exclusive learning and coaching grants for TMW subscribers
7 min read
Feb
03

🐪 Smart Conflict, Bayesian Thinking, Facilitation, Cross-Discipline Teams, Silver Bullet Platforms, Boreout vs Burnout: TMW #417

Join me live on Weds Feb 5th for a chat about conflict!
7 min read
Jan
27

🦬 Service Reliability, Succession Management, Dependencies, LLMs vs StackOverflow, Feature Flags, Uncertain Neuroscience: TMW #416

Toronto agenda announcement
9 min read
Jan
20

🍇 Barrels and Bottlenecks, Engineering Culture, Doom Loops, Self-Reviews, Risk, Reliability Carrots, Burnout: TMW #415

Early-bird conference tickets are nearly sold out!
8 min read
Jan
13

🐢 CTO Compensation, Strategy Frameworks, Hitting OKRs, Ownership, Psychological Safety, No Bugs, Failing a Lot: TMW #414

Take part in our annual Compensation Survey!
7 min read
Jan
06

🐡 Bad Metrics, The Duck-Rabbit, Wardley Mapping, Sync-Ups, Version Control, AI Coding Tools, Luck Surface Area: TMW #413

It's a new year! See you in London or Toronto...
7 min read
Dec
23

🍗 Adaptivity, Evil OKRs, Engineers Hate Meetings, Adhocracies, Problem Driven Development, Dashboards, Schedule Like a Slasher: TMW #412

From all of us at CTO Craft, have a great festive season!
6 min read
Dec
16

🍍 Fake Deadlines, Managing Up, SLOs, Creating Joy, Holiday On-Call, Trunk-Based Development, Trauma: TMW #411

Early-bird Toronto tickets now available...
7 min read
Dec
09

🍌 Team Dynamics, Red Beads, Risk, Chess, Protected Time, Hybrid Work, Code Yellows, Calendar Resets: TMW #410

How would you design the worst company culture?
8 min read