🧥 Slowing Down, Perfectionism, Building Trust, Neurodivergence, Overburden, Enabling Gaps, Stress Management: TMW #358

Hello again! It's the start of a brand new week

You may have noticed a lack of TMW fun last week - apologies for that, there's been some illness at chez Skipper, which is thankfully now past its worst.

Last week, hot on the heels of the recent CTO Craft Con, we opened up Super Early Bird tickets for the next installation, which we're lovingly calling The Big One. That's because we're moving to a new location in central London, which will allow us to host over 400 people. It's going to be the biggest CTO Craft party yet!

The line-up is looking stellar already, with speakers like Charity Majors, Gergely Orosz, Laura Tacho, and CTOs from companies like Monzo, Doist, Which?, Skyscanner, MOO, and many more.

Grab your Super Early Bird ticket on the link below - you won't regret it.

CTO Craft Con: London | 8-9 May 2024

CTO Craft Con will bring together over 400 Chief Technology Officers and other senior technology leaders from the most exciting start-ups, scale-ups, unicorns, and big tech companies to elevate their engineering culture in London, May 2024

CTO Craft Con London 2024

Also, if you're in Dublin or Edinburgh, don't miss our Mixer events at the beginning of December if you'd like to meet some of the CTO Craft members for relaxed chats and beverages. Details are a little further down this email.

That's it, on with the show! Stay warm

Andy @ CTO Craft

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CTO Craft Events

CTO Craft Bytes: The challenge of visibility in complex organizations

In this fireside chat, find out how leaders at Fortune 500 companies are creating a cultural shift in their organizations

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CTO Craft Mixer: Dublin

Network and learn with fellow CTOs, CTO Craft community members and aspiring tech leaders in Dublin, Ireland

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CTO Craft Mixer: Edinburgh

Join CTOs and aspiring tech leaders for an in-person CTO Craft Mixer in Edinburgh, Scotland!

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Reads of the Week

TBM 257: How to Make the Case for Slowing Down to Speed Up

How can we make the case for slowing down to speed up when we are already going slow, and when shutting things down and starting over is not an option?

The Beautiful MessJohn Cutler

The Failed Commodification Of Technical Work — Ludicity

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[From Vention] CTO Craft Con 2023: Our Highlights and Top Trends

The second edition of CTO Craft Con highlighted trends such as cautious optimism, remote culture growth, and resilient management teams. Check out Vention's post-event recap for more details!

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Thanks as always to all the amazing sponsors helping CTO Craft bring you resources like this newsletter, our events, community and more:

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Leadership, Strategy & Business

We Can’t Always Be Perfect – Owning Your Leadership Mistakes

Historically, there was expectation that to be a good leader, you had to be bulletproof and show no weakness, make no mistakes and certainly show no negative emotion. This lead to leaders masking t…

Simon PriorView all posts by siprior

Software Development and Postmortems

On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A technician’s failure to update one of the eight servers

Vadim KravcenkoVadim Kravcenko

How to Build Trust - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

What are the major management behaviors that can help build trust? Management books often cover the importance of trust, but abstractly. There’s precious little writing about the nuts and bolts, the day-to-day tasks of trust-building. That’s the gap I’d like to try to fill with this article.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Supporting Sustainability - Benji’s Blog

what about from the management side? I often hear from engineering and product managers that they’re unaware, or learn too late, that folks were accumulating debt. It becomes visible when teams are no longer able to achieve goals.

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Culture, People & Teams

Leading Minds of All Kinds – Embracing Neurodivergence in Your Teams

Leading a team can be hugely rewarding and helping then succeed through your guidance/mentoring and coaching can give you the ultimate job satisfaction. Following on from my previous article on sup…

Simon PriorView all posts by siprior

The Generalist/Specialist hiring mismatch - Wille Faler

Tech needs more proactive generalists with high-level problem-solving- and interpersonal skills, with a high capacity for learning, but we hire for deep specialization with an emphasis on rote memorization. How do we start probing for what really matters?

Wille Faler

The Downside of Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Too much psychological safety at work can jeopardize the performance of routine tasks, according to Wharton’s Peter Cappelli.

Knowledge@WhartonKnowledge at Wharton Staff

On hidden context: Behavioral science is the key to studying engineering effectiveness

In the last eight months, I’ve talked about our Developer Thriving framework with junior developers, with industry analysts, with crowds at conferences, and most of all, with engineering leaders and managers. It has been such an amazing journey since we launched this research project last March. I’v…

drcathicksCat Hicks

Technology, Operations & Delivery

Software governance in the age of GenAI and citizen developers | Thoughtworks

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What Exactly Is Overburden (Muri)? | AllAboutLean.com

Overburden (muri) is one of the three evils of manufacturing, along with unevenness (mura) and waste (muda). Out of the three, overburden is probably the least understood. Hence, in this post I will look deeper at overburden, including plenty of examples as well as the effects of overburden on your…

AllAboutLean.comChristoph Roser

Characterizing Software Developers by Perceptions of Productivity

The six types of developers, categorized by their ideal workday.

Engineering EnablementAbi Noda

Neurodiversity and invisible disabilities in Agile | Agile Alliance

Shedding light on the significance of accommodating neurodiversity and providing practical tips for creating an inclusive and effective Agile team.

Agile Alliance |Teri Musick

Stress, Wellbeing & Growth

Overcoming Procrastination (and How to Help Your Team Do the Same) | Management 3.0

Procrastination: delaying tasks intentionally. Why we do it, its work impact, and strategies to overcome it for better productivity.

Management 3.0nadine

Enabling Gaps

Sometimes my calendar looks like an LA freeway: 100% utilization, ultimate deadlock. This is not one of those times. November through January are quiet at my current job, no big launches or deadlin…

Jessitronjessitron

Once Exhaustion Sets In: Stress Management Simplified

Experiencing exhaustion is a challenge, but it may hold a surprising benefit regarding stress management.

Change Becomes YouThe Good Men Project

Getting better feedback on your work | hellojames

I’m a designer who helps growing organisations build great in-house teams.

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That’s it!

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Have an amazing week!

Andy