How a CTO builds a team
There are many factors involved in building a thriving team. This is what a CTO must consider when hiring expert teams to build software.
Team rhythm
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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.
The first days as a firefighting CTO — what to focus on when you are hired to lead a team in times of change
At madewithlove, we join teams when things aren’t so stable. Maybe a key non-replaceable employee has left or a new investment is fueling growth. I join these companies as a CTO ad interim, someone to captain the ship through troubled waters. It’s hard at times since I’m...
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 you want to build a habit, never skip it twice. Skipping your workout once is okay, we’re all human, we all have changing priorities...
Sit down! Why you are wasting time with standups
Just like any other agile team, we meet each day to discuss blockers and what we planned to work on. The goal of the meeting is to get everyone on the same page and make it clear when there is friction. We even tried async written standups. Then we cancelled...
Experimenting with asynchronous planning
No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy In a continued push for asynchronous work, we attempted to tackle one of the last major meetings we had — Sprint Planning. I’ve found this to be the most dreaded meeting for developers since it’s often a time sink. With...
Delivery oriented stand-ups
As engineers, we want to focus on delivering value to customers. We noticed that a lot of the projects we work on are following agile processes, but in a format that misses the mark. That’s why we started experimenting with how we could bring back the right focus. I’...
Someone's got a case of the Mondays
I hate Mondays. The theory is that if you hate Mondays you should change your job. And if you do that but find yourself hating your job again recently after joining a new company, well then it’s time for a new career. I got tripped up during a job...
Guiding teams to a better way of working
The following post will discuss how you can guide a team to a better way of working. Important side note: this post assumes that the team, and by extension the organization you’re working for are open to your help and have a healthy organizational culture. Be aware of situations...