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A bi-weekly letter from our CEO Andreas Creten for SaaS leaders and CTOs: what we see in audits, AI engineering and the companies we work with.

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From our SaaS audits

What we find inside SaaS companies

Patterns from the technical due diligences we run for investors and boards.

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Why it’s worth spending time on writing out tickets

Have a small team that likes to move fast and break things? You are writing tickets. Right?

Extreme Autonomy - the heart of Free Range Management

What’s the best way to lead knowledge workers? What is Free Range Management really about? What is extreme autonomy?

What a React Native developer needs to know to get hired

Some of our clients need help expanding their mobile teams. Often, we work on projects that are built with React Native. It’s a natural

Hiring on speed: a hypergrowth experience

When it is time to scale up an engineering team, hiring quickly becomes a headache. Hypergrowth leads to senior engineers that don’t spend any

The evolution of technical roles

Many startups give the CTO title to their technical lead. We think that’s a mistake. There is an organic way to grow engineering teams

When there isn’t plenty of fish in the sea: hiring and retaining tech talent

The shortage of skilled workers has been rising continuously in recent years. To be able to hire and retain scarce talent, we need to improve

How to overcome cognitive biases in your hiring process

How can you overcome cognitive biases in your hiring process? Our recruiting expert and hiring manager Simone explains how she does it during the hiring process when looking for talents for our clients and ourselves.

A few things you should know to nail your next job interview

If you are reading this right now, chances are high that you have a job interview coming up shortly. Perhaps you are not nervous because

How to assist your product marketing team as a software engineer

Software engineering and marketing are often considered to be on completely opposite ends of the spectrum but when put together they can become a powerful

Why remote is the new workplace - 2022

Since the pandemic began, we all have experienced the pleasures and pains of remote working. Fully remote jobs have become so increasingly popular with job

The smelly approach to structuring your startup

Did you know that Skunk Works has a set of rules laid down by its founder? If you aren’t familiar with Skunk Works, it’

Why startups gain an advantage in the war for talent by hiring and working remotely

Recruitment was not the easiest business to work in during the first year of the pandemic. The first things that come to mind when thinking

Facilitating my first event storm

I’ve very recently passed a personal milestone in my career. I facilitated my first ever event storm. As with most things you haven’t

You are not Spotify: how efficient teams are born

We see teams blindly following Scrum, Kanban, or the Spotify model and introducing roles into teams (such as a Site Reliability Engineer) because other companies

How a CEO knows what’s being built

1. Is roadmapping useful in software development? Suppose you are a mayor of Smallville. You might create a roadmap for the city that covers the

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