🎁 Micromanagers, Generative Cultures, Productive Conflict, Leadership Comp, Flow, Shape Up, Decelerators: TMW #312 by CTO Craft

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Andy @ CTO Craft

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How to build a Generative Culture in an Engineering Team A very common problem I see over and over again in engineering organizations revolves around the very fundamentals of software development. How to prioritize a backlog? How to manage incoming requests from various stakeholders? What is the team process that is built to solve these problems? medium.com  •  Share

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The Myth of Productive Conflict When we work alone, there is no conflict. We just do what we think we should be doing. But what happens when we work with other people? Everyone has different ideas about what is going on, how to interpret things, what is the right thing to do, etc. This leads to tensions in the system. shift314.com  •  Share

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Compensation trends: how have leadership salaries changed from before COVID to now? One of the (many) things I’ve been mulling over recently is the question of compensation. We so often think about compensation as a snapshot in time: what does a VP Sales cost now, what equity should I give to my CTO now, and so on. medium.com  •  Share

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