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
Mar
25

🧰 Project Failure, Leadership Risk, Planning, Scaling Teams, Speed Traps, Monte Carlo, Lessons from Burnout: TMW #372

Learn how Campus helps you assess your leadership skills and confidence
9 min read
Mar
18

🌡 Strategy & AI, Taking Risks, Conflict, On-Call, Greener Software, SLAs, Micro-Aggressions: TMW #371

Early Bird tickets end this week! Get in quick...
8 min read
Mar
11

🪗 Entropy, Assertive Leadership, Luck, Conway's Law, Victim Mentality, Time Tracking, Scary Change, Listening: TMW #370

🧠Thanks to Unblocked for sponsoring this issue of Tech Manager Weekly - helpful and accurate answers to your development team&
8 min read
Mar
04

🦧 WFH vs Teamwork, Ambiguity, Managing Managers, Behavioural Interviews, Leap-Year Bugs, Change Freezes, Workplace Stress: TMW #369

🎳Thanks to Unblocked for sponsoring this issue of Tech Manager Weekly - the best way to talk to your codebase,
8 min read
Feb
26

📚 Ego-less Leadership, Ambiguity, Meeting Hell, Evil PIPs, LLM App Development, No-Code, Negotiating: TMW #368

Plus: Conference updates, Early Bird tickets, fresh Campus stuff and more
7 min read
Feb
19

🦔 DevEx Study, Team Trust, Commodity Engineers, Silos, Fury Driven Development, Waste, Indecision: TMW #367

Plus: New Campus videos and courses, Mixer events and Compensation Survey
8 min read
Feb
12

🐞 Uncertainty, Operational Health, Giving Feedback, Hiring for Potential, Fluid Teams, Prioritisation, Remote Resilience: TMW #366

Plus: our Compensation Survey, CTO Craft Con and Mixer events in your city...
7 min read
Feb
05

🚕 CTO Compensation, Decision Drag, Opportunity Solution Trees, Performance Management, Deadlines, Predictability, Self-Awareness: TMW #365

🧠Thanks to Coherence for sponsoring this issue of Tech Manager Weekly - platform-as-a-service in your own AWS/GCP Hello again!
8 min read
Jan
29

🌊 Backlogs, the Trifecta, Trade-offs, Broken Teams, Tech Gambles, Flow Metrics, Developer Burnout: TMW #364

🤖Thanks to Vention for sponsoring this issue of Tech Manager Weekly - partnering with innovative companies from startups to Fortune
8 min read
Jan
22

🍵 Coaching Culture, Forecasts, Ambiguity, The Walk and Talk, Shortcuts, Team Stress: TMW #363

🧠Thanks to HeadChannel for sponsoring this issue of Tech Manager Weekly - collaborating with forward-thinking organisations looking to evolve their
8 min read