📝 Essays

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• Service as a Software
• Being a CTO in an AI-first world
• Five Ways to Build a $100 Million Developer-First Business
• Rooting for Developer-First Startups
• Auditing a Startup Product Engineering Organisation
• The French Tech Open Source Market Map
• Time to Positive User Feedback
• The Performance Management Formula
• The tough discussions we’re avoiding (and how to deal with them)
• The “Uber” Principle of Deadline Management
• The cost of mistakes in software development
• About 2023
• Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century
• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts?
• Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
• The Five Dysfunctions of the Product and Engineering Relationship
• I cannot work with my CPO
• A Standard of Performance for Engineering Teams
• Too many bugs
• OKRs and Roadmaps
• The Sunk "Code" Fallacy
• 2021 year in review
• Develop and support engineering managers
• A framework to improve performance
• The CTO as DNS server
• Should startups hire junior developers?
• The startup CTO growth cycle
• Assessing an engineering team’s performance
• Time management is the root of all team problems
• Educating your organisation on decision making
• Internal vs external engineering managers
• When to hire your first engineering manager
• Writing memos
• The move to full remote - A European perspective
• The upcoming engineering management crunch in Europe
• Managing an underperforming engineer
• Building a QA team in a growing organisation
• Leading experts
• Scaling up an engineering team to ship a new product
• Dealing with negative feedback from a high-level executive
• Promoting the Head of Engineering from within?
• My CEO is doing my job
• Dealing with low ambition
• How to get promoted
• The modern enterprise software company
• Seven technology leadership lessons from TV show writing
• Why software engineers should become CEOs
• Passion economy opportunities for software engineers
• Teaching
• Build vs buy decisions in the age of software abundance
• Managing like an investor
• Technology vision
• Onboarding software engineers
• Mental models
• Chance meetings, asynchronous collaboration and Innovation
• Sales for software engineers
• Coaching software engineers
• Managing Up
• Trust in software engineering teams
• Networking for introverts
• The delegation conundrum
• Having tough conversations remotely
• Leading in times of uncertainty
• The new state of remote
• Reconciling Tech and Business
• In search of 10x programmers
• Doing one-on-one meetings with software developers
• Stop interrupting your developers!
• Why developers (usually) make lousy managers