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 dynamics
The Fractional CTO (or Interim CTO) explained
Discover the transformative role of a Fractional CTO in scaling startups and enhancing tech leadership without the overhead. Learn how part-time CTO services can drive your company's innovation and growth efficiently.
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
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?
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
On Technical debt - What is it, how is it created, what types of technical debt are there, how to avoid tech debt, and how to fix it?
What is technical debt? How can you fix technical debt and what is the best approach to avoid technical debt?
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.
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’
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
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
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
Habits, retrospection, and ancient reptiles
I saw an interesting heuristic regarding habits recently but I couldn’t find the source anymore. Bear with me while I paraphrase a bit. If
The personal touch when onboarding an employee in a remote world
These are strange times for everyone. Imagine starting out in a new remote job when all you’ve ever been used to is going to