Roles and responsibilities

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The Fractional CTO explained

The Fractional CTO explained

Does your team need Fractional CTO services? As your team begins to grow, you might feel the need to promote your technical cofounder to the role of Chief Technology Officer. That’s often a mistake. There are many different skills a CTO needs depending on the size of the company....

Pulse: Episode 6 – Johann Romefort on Technical Due Diligence

Pulse: Episode 6 – Johann Romefort on Technical Due Diligence

In Pulse, a madewithlove podcast, Andreas talks with leaders from the tech startup and scale-up ecosystem. There are also some podcast episodes where Andreas talks with his own colleagues about everything he comes across when working as a CTO in residence for various clients. Sit back and enjoy Pulse! Episode...

The evolution of technical roles

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 and there are different leadership skills needed at different sizes. Because of this, titles have become quite confusing. We’ve also seen that founders will...

How to assist your product marketing team as a software engineer

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 team. This article lists some of the things you, as a software engineer, can do to help your product marketing team. Be observant Engineers have...

How to hire a CTO

How to hire a CTO

During the past years, I’ve interviewed a lot of developers, technical leaders, and CTOs. There are a few key things I’ve learned about hiring a good CTO for your startup. Does every successful technical team need a Chief Technology Officer at one point in time? What are the...

You are not Spotify: how efficient teams are born

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 blogged about it. These models and roles are created because of specific struggles these companies faced. While all these processes thus contain valid solutions to...

Seniority level in software engineering and how to assess it

Seniority level in software engineering and how to assess it

As a non-technical founder, it can be difficult to determine if your development team is composed of engineers that are on a senior or junior level, or somewhere in between. This especially becomes a big challenge when it’s time to hire your first engineer or expand the existing development...

Pulse podcast - Pilot with Andreas Creten

Pulse podcast - Pilot with Andreas Creten

Tune in for spicy and insightful conversations on all things SaaS, products,(technical) leadership and product. In Pulse, the podcast, madewithlove’s Vincent Battaglia talks with leaders in the tech startup and scale-up ecosystem. There are also some podcast episodes where Vincent talks with his own colleagues about everything he...

How do I know my team is productive when working from home?

How do I know my team is productive when working from home?

“How do I know my team is productive when working from home?” This must be the number one question I get when people ask me something about working remotely. I could tell them to install a camera that records the employee’s every movement, combined with a screen monitoring tool...

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