The Dilemma of the Startup CTO Title

"You see it all the time. A young, invincible hustler-hacker team join together as startup co-founders to pursue a dream of becoming the next Google or Facebook. The hustler takes the CEO title while the hacker becomes the CTO. All is good, right? Well, maybe not."

How to Balance Agile Uncertainty With Roadmap Planning

"Just because you have a roadmap, doesn't mean you're not agile. Here's how product managers can balance roadmaps with agile uncertainty."

Tips On Hiring More Women Developers, From A Man

"If you are not a woman, go and find one and chat to them about the fact that you want to hire more of them. Even better, find more than one woman to talk to. Even better, find some that work as developers! Talk about what you currently do."

Microinclusions: Daily Acts of Inclusion That Make a Difference

"Workplace inclusion is an ongoing priority for Amplitude. We know that talking about diversity and hiring diverse talent aren’t the only…"

Spinnaker : Global Continuous Delivery

"Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence."

5 Lies Product Managers Tell Themselves

"As a product manager it’s easy to become so busy that you lose sight of some larger truths. Do any of these product management lies sound familiar?"

REST API Basic Guidelines: Design it Right

"Finally, the from-the-beginning guide to REST we've all been waiting for. Have you read the hype and want to find out more? Start here."

The UX minimum

"The UX minimum is a list I collected after building digital products with many small and large companies. These are the minimum requirements you need."

Build pipelines, deployment, and immutable artifacts

"What is the best way to build your code? How can you ensure repeatable deploys? What does build and deployment look like in a devops…"

Oh, shit, git!

"Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible. Git documentation has this chicken and egg problem where you can't search for how to get yourself out of a mess, unless you already know the name of the thing you need to know about in order to fix your problem."

Activities from Retromat

The weekly retro activity comes from Retromat by Corinna Baldauf. Do your team a favour and pick up a copy right here!