🎛 CTO Role Market, Ownership, Values Alignment, Asking for Resources, Shadow Jobs: TMW #204 by CTO Craft
Hi there!
Planning for the conference is moving along at a brisk pace - we've now almost completely filled the line-up for the three days! We'll be announcing some more of the speakers this week, along with some of the talk and panel titles and subjects. You won't want to miss it
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Have a great week!
Andy @ CTO Craft
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Reads of the Week
Executive Search for Senior Tech Leadership: What we're hearing in 2021 Q1
When it comes to the top-priority skillsets for Engineering executives, all three Directors immediately identify ‘Leadership’ as the most highly valued skill, over and above technical domain knowledge.
How to Build a Culture of Ownership, and Other Engineering Leadership Tips from Plaid & Dropbox
Jean-Denis Grèze’s engineering management philosophy can be summed up in just one word: pragmatism. “When I was younger, I really liked the idea of building a perfect system and engineering something really perfectly."
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Culture & People
2021 Developer Job Search Preference Survey
Recruiters always take it for granted that you should be interested in what they offer, but the reality is that if I already have a job you have to show me something that triggers my interest if you want me to reply.
How to build organizational resilience
Resilience is a process: something you must actively perform, not something you check off a list once. It’s not the same as robustness, though the two are often confused. Computer systems can be robust against known failure modes.
Interviewing for values alignment
A cohesive culture imposes constraints on our decisions. Therefore, it comes with a cost that we must pay in order to maintain it. One of those costs is not hiring candidates who don’t share our values and don’t exhibit the behaviors that we view as essential for our success.
Misaligned Incentives Fuel Organizational Dysfunctions
Sometimes we need to stop fighting the symptoms and recognise that there is a more fundamental problem. Commonly, the fundamental problems is a mismatches in incentives between the different individuals and groups involved in achieving an outcome.
The Importance of a Great Developer Experience
In February 2012 I began working for a new company. On my first day, I deployed to production. I was lost for words. It felt like magic. Every day was the same: pick the highest priority item, implement it, and then deploy to production immediately. After 6 months, I was still pinching myself.
Leadership & Self-management
The Right Way to Ask for Additional Resources
My marketing manager recently asked me to define our marketing budget for 2021 so that she can plan accordingly. I found myself struggling. What budget should I define? I can spend a little or a lot — which one is right?
The Feynman Learning Technique
If you’re after a way to supercharge your learning and become smarter, the Feynman Technique might just be the best way to learn absolutely anything. Devised by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning.
Vulnerability as a Strength
Do some word association with me right now: what comes to mind when you hear “vulnerability?” You probably don’t associate it with strength, right? In reality, you probably tie it to the opposite. But what if the concept of “vulnerability” is, in fact, strong for people?
Mistakes I’ve Made as an Engineering Manager
I’ve been a manager for many years at companies of different scale. Through these experiences, I’ve done my share of learning, and made some mistakes along that way that were important lessons for me. I want to share those with you.
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Agile, Engineering & Product
Gremlin Releases State of Chaos Engineering 2021 Report
Gremlin released their State of Chaos Engineering 2021 report based on a community survey and their own product data. The key findings include a positive correlation between running chaos engineering experiments and increased availability.
Vision and Visibility: The Risk of Flying Blind
Value Stream Management Conversations with Steve Pereira and Helen Beal. In this conversation, we’ll be talking about vision and visibility. In 1918 C.E. Knoeppel published diagrams showing the flow of materials and information.
5 Root Cause Analysis Techniques to Breakthrough Barriers
A root cause analysis is a structured method for finding the underlying causes of process problems and undesirable outcomes. Root cause analysis is a core problem-solving technique used by organizations dedicated to continuous improvement.
Trust is an enabling technology
From source control through continuous build, integration, testing, and deployment, a software delivery system is the collection of systems and practices that take code from idea to production. A good one will enhance the experience of working at your company.
When Agile isn’t Agile
Signs your organization has missed the point of Agile and it’s become another buzz-word! Treating Agile as just a method not part of a mindset, or culture, is a common contradiction in orgs trying to become Agile organizations.
What Else?
Shadow Jobs
We take developer productivity pretty seriously at Slack. It’s multi-faceted, spreading across build speed, reliability, modernity, and more. One thing we really pride ourselves in is using the latest build tools when possible.
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Have an amazing week!
Andy