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
Jun
30

πŸ₯¬ Crisis, Prioritisation, Past vs Future Results, Being the Bad Guy, Team Vibe Archetypes, Impossible Deadlines, EQ: TMW #438

Deep Dives: Managing Upwards and Sideways is this week!
9 min read
Jun
23

🍍 Ruthless Prioritisation, Leadership Neuroscience, Mentoring Juniors, Damn Hard IT Projects, Self-Sabotage: TMW #437

πŸ₯‹Thanks to Aikido for sponsoring this week's TMW - an all-in-one security platform that covers you from code-to-cloud
7 min read
Jun
16

🌽 Good Micromanagement, Word Vomit, Two-Way Doors, Managing B-Players, Guilds, AI-Driven Docs, Illusory Correlation: TMW #436

Should you centralise code ownership?
7 min read
Jun
09

🐠 Vacation Tests, Short vs Long Term Strategy, Delegation, Zero Surprises, Mob AI, Build or Buy, Workplace Stress: TMW #435

How burnt out do you feel right now?
9 min read
Jun
02

🐒 Managing Upwards, OKRs vs Strategy, Ephemeral Taskforces, Managerlessness, Your Chronotypes: TMW #434

Struggling with your senior leadership team?
8 min read
May
26

🦍 Alignment, Influence, Non-Harmful Leadership, Hiring Bias, Easy Metrics, DevEx, Leadership Battery, Self-Promotion: TMW #433

How does your compensation stack up? Report just released...
7 min read
May
19

🦧 Architecture Decisions, People-First Leadership, AI in Interviews, Root Cause Labeling, Expensive Microservices, Overloaded Devs: TMW #432

It's a big week for Mixers! Are you joining one?
8 min read
May
12

πŸ‰ Tech Coordination, Intuitive Leaders, Hiring Juniors, Progression Frameworks, Tech Debt at Scale, CI/CD Attacks: TMW #431

How safe is your team?
10 min read
May
05

🍌 Effective 1:1s, Leadership Influence, Mind Melds, Underperformance, Capacity Planning, Wicked Features, Abandoning Scrum: TMW #430

Super bumper packed Bank Holiday issue...
7 min read
Apr
28

β›Ί Frontal Leading, Prioritisation Techniques, Good Gossip, Conversations, Agile Budgeting, Feature Factories, Cortisol: TMW #429

Live Bytes session on upskilling teams this Weds
7 min read