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?
Team and leadership
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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
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...
It’s here: Free Range Management, the book
Create space so your team can thrive. You must create space for knowledge workers to do their best work. But how do you do that? Welcome to Free Range Management. Free Range Management can be summed up in two words: create space. The trick is doing that in a way...
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...
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 the quality and speed of the hiring process. Here’s how we do that at madewithlove. I. Finding talent 1. Take care of your job...
How to overcome cognitive biases in your hiring process
The first step to overcoming biases is recognizing that they exist and that no one — no matter how educated and open-minded they are — is free of them. Biases can influence our decisions in numerous ways. If undetected, they can lead to suboptimal hires and, perhaps worse, unequal opportunities. Today, we...
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 thanks to today’s talent shortage, you may choose between 4 or 5 job offers served to you on a silver platter every single day....
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...