Tech Lead Digest #94: Becoming CTO of a small startup
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Becoming CTO of a small startup
In every software engineer’s life comes a time when they need to decide if they want to pursue a career in engineering or switch to management. There are pros and cons to both of those choices, and it all depends on what your character is like, what you want out of life, and how well you can manage work-life balance.
Using systems thinking to craft high-leverage strategies
Most teams struggle with removing operational friction because they concentrate on surface-level reactionary fixes (usually bandied as tech debt removal) instead of addressing the fundamental causes of inefficiency.
Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder
We have been interviewing and hiring a pile of engineering directors at Honeycomb lately. In so doing, I’ve had some fascinating conversations with engineering managers who have been trying unsuccessfully to make the leap to director.
Antifragile Planning: Optimizing for Optionality
Planning timelines have been getting shorter and shorter across every industry over the last couple decades. Companies that used to make ten-year plans now make five-year plans. Companies that used to make five-year plans now make three-year plans.
Cargo Culting Software Engineering Practices
Three months into my first Big Tech gig I was talking to a mentor about the overhead involved with the way the organisation worked. Meetings for standups, tech huddles, refinements, retros and product reviews; Processes such as limiting work in progress, desk checks, spikes, stories, and tasks. Coming from a startup we delivered high quality software without all of that labelled process. The mentor lent me his copy of Extreme Programming by Kent Beck, and that book gave me a framework to develop my own philosophy on software delivery and engineering practices. Since then I’ve followed Beck’s writings and talks.
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