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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
Jan
24

🥾 Learning Culture, Listening, Engineering Supremacy, 1:1:1s, Better Writing, Bitrot: TMW #250 by CTO Craft

Hello again! Wow, we made it! This is the 250th issue of Tech Manager Weekly - a huge, huge thank
6 min read
Jan
17

🏓 Managing Managers, Jeans and Jorts, Cost of Attrition, Courageous Leadership, Slumps, Jenkins Attacks, No Scrum for Data: TMW #249 by CTO Craft

Hi there, welcome to the week! The first of this week's two Bytes events is on Tuesday at12.
6 min read
Jan
10

⛑ Product/Engineering Tension, Losing Clout, ADHD, Storytelling, Micromanagement, Predictable Agile: TMW #248 by CTO Craft

Hello again! Welcome to 2022 - I hope the year's started positively for you, and that you came
6 min read
Dec
20

🎄 Second Order Anxiety, Reverse Code Reviews, DILO, "Power-With", Toxic Work, Document Culture, Pattern Matching: TMW #247 by CTO Craft

Hello there! So here we are, that was the year that was - it's been exciting, exhausting, inspirational
6 min read
Dec
13

🍇 Shape Up, Rebuilding Trust, Coding Tests, Quick Decisions, The War on Worry, Incident Documentation: TMW #246 by CTO Craft

Hi there We have an amazing last-minute addition to 2021's series of CTO Craft Bytes this week, where
6 min read
Dec
06

🧶 Calendar Sanity, Role Conflict, Daniel Kahneman, Hiring Well, Self-Selection Reteaming, Performance Reviews: TMW #245 by CTO Craft

Howdy everyone! For those of you knee-deep in strategy and planning for 2022, as well as end-of-year performance reviews, stay
5 min read
Nov
29

🦜 New Leaders, Culture Formula, OKRs at Scale, Bad 5 Whys, "I Don't Know!", OOPS Write-ups: TMW #244 by CTO Craft

Hello again, welcome to the week! This week's Bytes session will be with the brilliant Suzan Bond, who
6 min read
Nov
22

🦾 Tech DD, Age of Automation, Flat Orgs, Meeting Overload, Feedback Magnets, Momentum: TMW #243 by CTO Craft

Howdy! Welcome to the week This week we'll be recapping some of the amazing Spotlight interviews some of
6 min read
Nov
15

🧠 Magical Meetings, Performance Reviews, Work Sample Tests, Annual Planning, Swagger, MTTR, Rhythm: TMW #242 by CTO Craft

Hello there! Thank you to everyone who attended last week's CTO Craft Con 3.0, as well as
6 min read
Nov
04

🥒 Speaker Takeover part 2! Safety, Toxic Behaviour, Urgency, Strategy, Recognition, RFCs: TMW #241 by CTO Craft

Hello again! Here we are with the second part of our pre-conference speaker takeover, featuring the amazing participants of Days
5 min read