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
May
08

🐞 CTO Styles, Boring Culture, Pre-Approval, Layoffs, Stripe CTO, Cross-Discipline Teams, Accessibility, Second Brains: TMW #330

Hello again, welcome to the week! If you've registered to come along to our Networking Drinks in London
7 min read
May
01

🌻 Rewrite Traps, Psychological Safety, Good Goals, Strategy Debugging, NIHS, Uptime Guarantees, Worry Burnout: TMW #329

Hi there, welcome to the week If, like the CTO Craft team, you're based in the UK, chances
8 min read
Apr
24

🤿 Accountability, One-on-Ones, Influencing Up, Psychological Safety, SRE Teams, Forecasting, Project Rescue: TMW #328

Hello again, happy Monday! It's official - our very first in-person CTO Craft Con has now sold out!
8 min read
Apr
17

🥪 Asynchronous Work, Interruptions, Decision Making, Pre-Mortems, Onboarding Buddies, Jira Antipatterns: TMW #327

Hello there, welcome to the week! A huge thanks to everyone who's taken part in our Compensation Survey,
7 min read
Apr
10

🍉 Comp Survey, OKRs by ChatGPT, Boss to Coach, Letting Go, Disrespect, Github SBOM, Manager Career Paths: TMW #326

Hello there, and Happy Easter for those who celebrate it! Again, a huge thanks to those who completed the CTO
7 min read
Apr
03

🍫 On Hiring, Software Vendors, Accountability vs Blame, Incompetence, Onboarding, Pairing, Flow Efficiency, MLOps: TMW #325

Hello again! You might remember our recent survey on Leadership Health, in collaboration with Lohika - the survey has now
7 min read
Mar
27

🥐 GPT, Finance Terms, Barriers to Change, Visual Thinking, Rule of Three, Risk, Dimensions of Burnout: TMW #324

Hey there, welcome to the week! Well, yes, GAI, ChatGPT, GPT-4 and everything else have been among the most-discussed topics
6 min read
Mar
20

🍔 Capability Frameworks, RACI, Assessing Managers, Onboarding, RTO, Deployments, Being Right: TMW #323

Hey hey! Welcome to the week Ahead of CTO Craft Con London in May, we'll be posting deep-dive
7 min read
Mar
13

🥦 Onboarding, Architects, Leader Entitlement, Adaptive Strategy, Capability Combs, SaaS Jenga, Burnout: TMW #322

Hello again, welcome to the week! I'm fairly biased, but the quality of the conversations in the CTO
7 min read
Mar
06

🌶 Product Councils, WIP, M&A, Messy Problems, Feminine Leadership, Culture Viruses, SPACE, Adaptability: TMW #321

Hi there, welcome to the week! Tickets for CTO Craft Con London are still flying out of the door, and
7 min read