🍤 Prioritisation vs Strategy, Business Language, Culture as a Product, Incident Management, DevSecOps, Workplace Mental Health: TMW #376
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Strategies for scaling rapidly growing tech teams in a challenging economy | CTO Craft
Read about strategies you can employ to dodge budgetary traps during hiring and expand your teams appropriately to stay a step ahead.
Glyn Roberts
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CTO Craft Mixer: Dublin 2024
Join our community of CTOs and senior tech leaders for an informal meet-up in Dublin
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CTO Craft Mixer: Amsterdam 2024
Join our community of CTOs and senior tech leaders for an informal meet-up in Amsterdam
Matt Hunt
Reads of the Week
Changing Hiring Practices to Build a More Diverse Technology Organization
A Case Study from Avvo
Kevin Goldsmith
The Prioritization Problem - Crisp’s Blog
It was tense. A long list had been shared. Big features to build, new markets to launch. You could feel the built-up tension in the room. In the past, there had been a lot of friction.
Marcus Castenfors
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Leadership, Strategy & Business
You’re always carrying a cannon - phildini.dev
This post is a rough recreation of a post from someone else that I saw years ago and now can’t find. If this rings a bell and you know the original,
Language of Business
Everyone speaks finance
Mike Fisher
How to Drive Change Beyond Your Role
What can you do when you’re not in a leadership role but want to push for a change in your team? What aspects are helpful in this situation, and what can managers do to encourage taking initiatives?
Péter Szász
Do We Really Need Managers? | David Burkus
Do we really need managers? More than you might think.
David Burkus
Culture, People & Teams
The Five Conditions for (Organizational) Improvement | Another Rodeo
Understanding why organizations get stuck and won't change
Addressing the challenges of partially distributed engineering teams
Ciao Mondo! (Hello world! in Italian) I hope that everyone’s spring is going well. The book continues to do better than I expected, and I appreciate all of you who have purchased a copy. If you’ve read the book, it would be fantastic if you could leave a review to help get the word out. If you liked the book, tell your friends!
Kevin Goldsmith
Build Your Culture Like a Product — Lessons from Asana’s Head of People
Anna Binder, Asana’s Head of People and the company’s first HR hire, shares her step-by-step approach to intentionally building the company culture.
First Round Staff
The Key to Combat Quiet Quitting
A new take on what’s behind this workplace trend and how managers can resolve it
Maureen Considine
Technology, Operations & Delivery
Garden-path incidents
Barb’s story It’s 12 noon on a Minneapolis Wednesday, which means Barb can be found at Quang. As the waiter sets down Barb’s usual order (#307, the Bun Chay, extra spicy), Barb…
Dan Slimmon
Lessons after a half-billion GPT tokens - Ken Kantzer’s Blog
My startup Truss (gettruss.io) released a few LLM-heavy features in the last six months, and the narrative around LLMs that I read on Hacker News is now starting to diverge from my reality, so I thought I’d share some of the more “surprising” lessons after churning through just north of 500 million tokens, by my […]
Ken
Application Security Optimised for Engineering Productivity
Laura Bell Main presented a webinar on 2024 trends in application security. She called out a shift from siloed DevSecOps initiatives to building an understanding of dev friction, and presenting solutions which optimise engineering productivity. Nikki Robinson also recently spoke about the importance of taking a developer experience targeted approach to security platform engineering.
Rafiq Gemmail
AI Product Management | Silicon Valley Product Group
A partnership dedicated to teaching best practices to product teams and product leaders
Marty Cagan
Stress, Wellbeing & Growth
2024 Workforce State of Mind
Sixth Annual Workplace Mental Health Trends Report
5 Networking Tips for Introverts (and Anyone Else)
Even if you’re an introvert who dreads the notion of networking, you can develop your skills to get out there and do it. Research by the Lehigh@NasdaqCenter, a partnership between Lehigh University and the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, identified make-or-break factors for developing networking skills. They include: the ability to adapt your thinking swiftly in response to changing situations; combating a tendency to focus more on avoiding errors and negative results and instead striving for positive outcomes; consciously trying to have faith in your networking prowess; being persistent; and focusing more on the future.
Willy Das
Start Where You Are
Or why you should embrace where you are since you can’t be anywhere else
Michael Wolfe5 Strategies for Improving Mental Health at Work
Companies are investing in — and talking about — mental health more often these days. But employees aren’t reporting a corresponding rise in well-being. Why? The author, who wrote a book on mental health and work last year, explores several key ways organizations haven’t gone far enough in implementing a culture of well-being. She also makes five key suggestions on what they can do to improve the mental health of their employees.
Morra Aarons-Mele
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