How to prevent big front-end rewrites with lean technology choices

You have probably read articles on front-end technology choices and big rewrites such as Why SnackWoot switched from Angular to React et al, which might make for interesting reading, but they should…

From Zero to CTO: Fergus Doyle is in the spotlight

I’ve always been in work environments requiring a high degree of autonomy and creativity. I started my career in technology at a small digital agency working on projects for clients ranging from the…

How to Choose a Programming Language

Choosing a programming language for your company is a strategic decision with long-term implications for hiring, culture and even the viability of your product. This article looks at what you should…

Motivating Software Engineers 101

Many companies focus entirely too much on trying to use extrinsic factors to drive performance of their engineering teams. In reality, it’s often the intrinsic motivators that have the largest effect. Here’s the secret: Happier software engineers perform better.

How do you become a leader without explicit authority?

Four years ago, I was coming back to work from my first maternity leave, and was working 3-days a week. I kept my head down and got my coding tasks done in my limited time in the office. Week after…

How to Help a New Manager Be Successful

New managers face many challenges. It's a new set of tasks & responsibilities. We share what you can do to help a new manager on your team succeed.

The Power of Anti-Goals

Last year, my business partner Chris and I sat down to think about what we wanted to achieve at Tiny. We thought up all sorts of lofty goals, but when we really got down to it our true goal was…

High-Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety. Here’s How to Create It

Five ways to build trust.

Diversity Hiring and Inclusion. From my experience.

Let’s call diversity hiring what it is at most companies: It’s BS. It’s about quotas, hitting numbers, getting funding, and running campaigns on Facebook

Candidate Experience: To Attract, We Must Understand

To attract the best candidates you need to stop looking at things from your perspective and step into theirs.

Agile Management Anti-Patterns – An Introduction for Aspiring Managers

Agile Management Anti-Patterns provides an introduction to anti-patterns that the aspiring agile manager should avoid during the transition. #agileantipatterns #agiletransition #management

Grakn’s (Mostly) Agile Methodology

The lead engineer of a successful tech startup discusses the process by which his team found the type of ad hoc Agile process that was best for their workflow.

State of Practice in Agile Retrospectives

Annual agile retrospective report describes the state of practice in agile retrospectives: how retrospectives are being done and the value that they bring

Towards System Resilience: An Organisational Cheat Sheet

A lack of system resilience has the potential to ruin a product or even an organization. You need some organisational practices to fix this.

How to train your own Object Detector with TensorFlow’s Object Detector API

This is a follow-up post on “Building a Real-Time Object Recognition App with Tensorflow and OpenCV” where I focus on training my own…

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!

Hi, I'm Andy, founder at CTO Craft

I've been CTO or Head of Technology for a number of startups and charities since 2006, across a number of sectors, team sizes and technology stacks. If you'd like to drop me a line, simply reply to this email. I promise to reply to everyone personally.