🍊 AWS Lambda Innards, Meeting Follow-ups, Feature Parity, Team Confidence, Leadership Brand, Coaching: TMW #227 by CTO Craft
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Just a brief intro this time as we have a lot of amazing content to share below - a huge, huge thanks to everyone who's contributed links and ideas recently, it's helping us shape TMW into the perfect resource for you as leaders.
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Andy @ CTO Craft
From the CTO Craft Blog
Zero to CTO – Jossie Haines is in the spotlight
Jossie Haines has spent 20 years in the tech industry as an engineering leader at the forefront of emerging technology across Silicon Valley, including management roles at Apple, Tile, Zynga, and American Express.
Why You Should Approach Outsourcing as Problem-Solving, Not Body Leasing
If you could go back in time and ask a CTO from 2001 what outsourcing IT is, you would probably hear that it’s about ordering software based on detailed specifications.
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Culture & People
Better Meetings Make for Better Days — 20 Tactical Ideas to Try Out With Your Team
We're spending more time in meetings than ever. The sharpest folks we've interviewed share their best tips for making sure this time is well spent.
Meeting Follow-up Emails: How to Write One (and 3 Examples)
Following up after a meeting can be forgotten when you get caught up in ensuring your meeting runs smoothly from beginning to end on top of working through your to-do lists.
Bridge the Confidence Gap: How to Instill Confidence in Your Team
What could you do, how great could you be if you weren’t afraid? The greatest prohibitor of growth in both our personal and professional lives is ourselves; we stand in our own way. Why? Most often it’s because we lack confidence in our abilities, or what is referred to as a confidence gap.
Lessons Learned about Developer Experience from the Platform Adoption Metrics
In order to properly treat your internal platform as a product, having accurate metrics of its adoption is key to success. Naranja defined three main concepts to understand platform adoption: applicability, adoption and up-to-dateness.
Leadership & Self-management
How To Be A Leader In Any Role
Leadership is a mindset. It’s not just a role you act within. Most people think of leadership as a predefined role constricted to a job title.
How To Lead When Your Team is Smarter Than You
On numerous projects during my career, the stakes have been high. Once I directed a short film for Dentsu Advertising in Tokyo – at that time the largest advertising agency in the world. Another project was directing an expensive music video that launched a pop album with Universal Music Group.
What is your personal leadership brand?
Early on in our careers, we are schooled in the importance of the elevator pitch, so that we can deliver a concise answer if somebody important we meet in passing asks, “What are you working on?” or “What do you do here?” The succinct sales pitch is also an essential skill for entrepreneurs
Need More Time At Work? Spend More Time Coaching Your Team
I have rarely met a manager that wasn’t swamped daily with meetings, emails, and fires to put out. If this is you, keeping your head above water is your primary objective day-to-day. Forget about being proactive, you can barely react to the unexpected, which occurs daily.
Agile, Engineering & Product
Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list
Andy says: "An impressive list of rules and laws that Allen has developed during his time as an agile and transformation consultant. Some are inevitably controversial - what do you think of the list?"
Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda
Writing code and deploying it to AWS Lambda is as easy as baking a cake (depending on the type of cake). Lambda performs the heavy lifting for you, from provisioning to scaling. But where is the magic happening and how does it actually work under the hood? Lets find out together!
Feature Parity
Replicate existing functionality of a legacy system using a new technology stack. They are all too aware that there is an chance to make improvements, optimize processes and unlock new opportunities.
11 Laws of Software Estimation for Complex Work
I had been summoned for a sudden meeting by our Chief Product Officer (CPO). He told me the meeting was urgent and important, and I should drop whatever I was doing to make it. I was five months into my first job as a product owner.
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