Andy Skipper

Andy Skipper

United Kingdom
CTO and Coach, beardy know-it-all and daddy, he/him. Also curates CTO Craft Con and helps level up CTOs at CTO Craft
Nov
18

🐑 Reducing Complexity, Delegating, Tiny Strategies, Headcount, DORA Benchmarks, Evolutionary Design, Impostor Syndrome: TMW #407

Plus... New Circles starting soon, conference news, and more
8 min read
Nov
11

πŸ… Cargo Culting, Being Strategic, Retention, Facilitation, Software Moves Forward, Luck Surface Area, Seasonal Overwhelm: TMW #406

Plus performance review survey results...
8 min read
Nov
04

🦬 Over-measurement, Decision-making, Good Conflict, Healthy Teams, Security, LLM Fine-tuning, Receiving Feedback, Awkwardness: TMW #405

Lots of Mixers - is there one in your city?
8 min read
Oct
28

🍹 Skip Levels, Manipulating Managers, Leadership OKRs, Transactive Memory, Staying Technical, Claude, Tiny Demons: TMW #404

Free London event on November 13th..
7 min read
Oct
21

🐌 Decision-making Pitfalls, Lean Failure, Joyful Work, Team Conflict, Good Engineers, Architecture Proposals, Celebrating, Drama: TMW #403

Last chance for CfPs for London 2025!
7 min read
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