The Steve Test: 12 Steps to Better Teams
Evaluate your team’s culture with a simple test. For managers, learn how you can improve your team. For individual contributors, learn what you’re missing out on when it comes to team culture.
Team dynamics
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Why retrospectives are essential
Teams of all experience levels can improve their way of working, but only if they take a moment to retrospect.
Why remote work works
Here we address some common excuses about why remote work doesn't work.
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?
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 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! Read:...
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...
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?