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
Apr
04

๐Ÿช Translating Tech Debt, Design Thinking, Tiger Hiring, Take-homes, Code Ownership, Breach Legal Costs: TMW #260 by CTO Craft

Hello, welcome to the week! A massive thanks to everyone who's completed the CTO Craft Member Survey -
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Mar
28

๐Ÿฆฉ Stable vs Fluid Teams, Developer Happiness, Reorgs, Delighting Candidates, Consent vs Consensus: TMW #259 by CTO Craft

Hello everyone! Firstly, a massive, massive thanks to the hundreds of you who've completed our CTO Craft Member
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Mar
21

๐Ÿคฟ Montessori, Headcount Tracking, Managing Work, Managing Emotions, Dark Debt, Shape Up: TMW #258 by CTO Craft

Hello there! It's been a little while since we asked the CTO Craft members and TMW subscribers to
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Mar
14

๐Ÿš  Blind Assessments, Good to Great, Tech and War, Burnout, SRE Career Progression, Monte Carlo: TMW #257 by CTO Craft

Hello again! We have a packed issue this week, so I'll simply reiterate our support for everyone in
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Mar
07

๐Ÿงต Roadmaps and OKRs, Process Cultures, Team Dependencies, Jerks at Work, Delegation, Alliances, NSA Security Report: TMW #256 by CTO Craft

Howdy, welcome to the week! This week we re-launched our CTO Craft Roundtables, which are only available to members of
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Feb
28

๐Ÿ”ฌ Building Wisdom, Women CTOs, Mobile Apps, Developer Satisfaction, Challenging Conversations: TMW #255 by CTO Craft

Hello again! What a horrific week for all of us in Europe, and especially our friends, relatives, colleagues and their
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Feb
21

๐Ÿช‚ Death Marches, Employee Engagement, Team Onions, Documentation, Stretch Goals, Collective Leadership: TMW #254 by CTO Craft

Hello, welcome to the week! We have some big news at CTO Craft this week - we've drawn
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Feb
14

๐Ÿงฒ Beyond DORA, Executive Presence, Group Decisions, Turn up the Fun!, Calendar Reviews, Handovers, CUPID : TMW #253 by CTO Craft

Hello there! This week's CTO Craft Bytes session will look at how to ensure your engineering org actually
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Feb
07

๐Ÿ•น Leadership Styles, Team Autonomy, Performance Reviews, Better Meetings, Bad Slack, Shared Decisions, Tech Debt: TMW #252 by CTO Craft

Howdy everyone! Welcome to the week This week, I've been thinking a lot about leadership styles: working with
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Jan
31

๐ŸงŠ Time to Talk, Stigma, Energy Management, Prioritisation, The Loop, Cost of Losing a Leader, Evolutionary Leadership: TMW #251 by CTO Craft

Hello all! As some of you know, burnout, mental health and wellbeing are somewhat central to our approach in helping
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