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
Sep
15

👃 How to identify and address CTO smells - Self-management: TMW #290 by CTO Craft

Hi there! This is the last of our CTO Craft Smells series, this time focusing on how leaders can trip
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Sep
12

🎸 IKEA Effect, Technical Assessments, High Performance, Culture Killers, Exec 1:1s, Accountability: TMW #289 by CTO Craft

Hello again! Hope you had a good weekend Last week's Bytes London event with Meri Williams and Alfonso
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Sep
08

👃 How to identify and address CTO smells - People Management: TMW #288 by CTO Craft

Hello again! Last week we focused on some common mistakes engineering leaders make around Process - today we'll
3 min read
Sep
05

🐄 Interim CTOs, a Safety Ecosystem, Viable Systems Models, Mediation, Managing Up, a Fence? TMW #287 by CTO Craft

Hi there, welcome to the week! A reminder that we'll be back in London this week for our
5 min read
Sep
01

👃 How to identify and address CTO Smells - Process: TMW #286 by CTO Craft

Howdy! Over the next three mid-week issues of TMW, we'll be taking a look at common ways an
6 min read
Aug
29

🥒 Succession Planning, Pace and Stress, Recognition, Designing a Tech Org, Quality vs Speed: TMW #285 by CTO Craft

Hello there! Guess what - we've nearly filled the agenda for November's CTO Craft Con, and
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Aug
25

🦉 The Anatomy of an Inclusive Engineering Job Spec: TMW #284 by CTO Craft

Hello there! Today's mid-week TMW focuses on the first barrier to expanding diversity and inclusivity in your teams
5 min read
Aug
22

🥯 Check-ins, Criticism vs Praise, Reorgs, Being a Senior Leader, Leading vs Lagging, Distributed SQLite: TMW #283 by CTO Craft

Hello again! Hope you've had a good weekend We're still hard at work plotting the agenda
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Aug
18

🦦 Warning: You Need Better Management Training for Technologists: TMW #282 by CTO Craft

Hello again! Here's this week's long-form piece, this time on the importance of development of management
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Aug
15

🍳 Conference! Scaling Culture, Destructive KPIs, Retaining Talent, Bad Interviewers, Wardley, Java: TMW #281 by CTO Craft

Hello there! Yep, conference time is coming up again - we'll be live on November 14th - 16th,
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