Mastering Team Autonomy: A CTO's Dilemma
Exploring approaches CTOs and Engineering Leaders can deploy to strike the ideal balance between autonomy and adhering to coherent standards across their teams
Leadership
Low morale in your team? focus on Safety
When I work with leaders who are facing situations of low morale in their team, I usually introduce them to a powerful tool to understand the difference between Certainty and Safety
How to get the executive team to understand you
Many CTOs and Engineering Leaders struggle to get their points across in the executive team, often complaining they're not being understood.
Should Engineering Managers Code?
Why I think this is the wrong question, and my suggestions on how to approach the right question
The Story of How I Got Into Leadership - Part 2
What tipped the scale for me, and some take aways you can use in your own decision on whether to transition to the Management track.
The Story of How I got into Leadership - Part 1
How some formative experiences in my early years as a Developer led me to think I would never be a Manager.
The biggest mess in my professional career - Part 2
If only I could press F5