❄️ Killer Leadership, Career Frameworks, Decisions, Control -> Growth, Annual Planning: TMW #311 by CTO Craft
Hello there! Welcome to the week
We're already knee-deep in planning mode for 2023 here at CTO Craft, on the back of a year that's seen massive growth in the community from all corners of the world, two more brilliant conferences, and the reintroduction of our in-person London Bytes. Thanks to everyone who came along to our Festive Social event last Friday - hope you all had a brilliant time!
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Reads of the Week
Behind the Curtain: Understanding the Magic of ChatGPT
I won’t be citing any examples here because there’s no need. You can run the tool yourself with topics you already know about. So let’s look at what’s going on under the hood. Mel Brooks’s Young…
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Culture & People
Your leadership can kill your culture - here’s how to avoid it
The intangible value of culture plays a big part in how a company can function. So, how can you ensure that you create and nurture a learning culture that gives your business an innovative edge?
What We Did Differently With Pleo’s Engineering Career Framework
By defining a career framework you define the jobs people can have in your organization. This quickly ripples into vital second and third-order implications around how your organization is structured, how information flows, and how people do their work.
Highly aligned, loosely coupled: How Shopify uses writing to get its 7,000+ employees on the same page
Since its humble beginnings as an online snowboard shop in 2006, Shopify has grown to be the world’s biggest e-commerce platform with over 7,000 employees globally. Editor in Chief, Courtney Symons is keenly aware of the role writing has played in keeping the company on the right path as it grows.
27 Decision-making Techniques and Activities for Deciding Together
In our groups and organizations, we want to move forward. We want to get things done, take action and change things in the world. To do that, we need to align on what we will do together, and how. In other words, we need to decide.
Recognition is not always about the public 'kudos' channel
Have you ever been asked "Do you feel recognised at work?" as part of an engagement survey perhaps from HR. It's a good question. We've known for at least 70 years that there is a connection between recognition and feeling motivated, appreciated and valued so its fair that HR might be interested if the company is getting it right.
Leadership & Self-management
How to Effectively Join a Startup as an Engineering Leader
The title does not matter. You can join as a Director of Engineering, VP of Engineering, CTO or Head of Engineering. What are you here for? What does the company expect from you? How can you set yourself up for success?
4 Ways To Elevate Your Leadership from Control to Growth
Leaders who feel the need to personally involve themselves in the minutia of the team’s operation rarely call themselves a “control freak”, but without realizing it, their need to control is impeding the very results they want so desperately to see.
Annual Planning in Uncertain Times: 6 Tactics for Rethinking Your Company’s End-of-Year Exercise
While still hoping to give their team a final boost of motivation to hit those stretch goals before Q4 wraps up, many founders are undertaking the ritual of crafting plans for the next calendar year.
Doing “No” Better
tl;dr Sometimes the right response to a request is “No.” Maybe “Yes” and “No” are the wrong words, or the wrong responses, particularly if you’re trying to initiate a conversation.
Agile, Engineering & Product
The Never Events That Should Never Happen In Software Development
Good development should be boring. You follow the process from start to finish to reduce mistakes and problems. Most developers focus on creating software, but good developers make sure they don’t…
Incident categories I’d like to see
If you’re categorizing your incidents by cause, here are some options for causes that I’d love to see used. These are all taken directly from the field of cognitive systems engineering research. All of us are so often working near saturation: we have more work to do than time to do it.
A debugging manifesto
I’ve been working on a zine about debugging for the last 6 months with my friend Marie, and one of the problems we ran into was figuring out how to explain the right attitude to take when debugging. We ended up writing a short debugging manifesto to start the zine with, and I’m pretty happy with how it came out.
ISO27001 2022: Everything you need to know
In this article we lay bare the changes to the ISO 27001 standard that happened in 2022 - we show you exactly what changed in the ISO27001:2022 update
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