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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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Outcome Expectations (#81)
Everyone states what they want out of the retrospective
Everyone in the team states their goal for the retrospective, i.e. what they want out of the meeting. Examples of what participants might say:
- I'm happy if we get 1 good action item
- I want to talk about our argument about unit tests and agree on how we'll do it in the future
- I'll consider this retro a success, if we come up with a plan to tidy up $obscureModule
[The Meet - Core Protocol, which inspired this activity, also describes 'Alignment Checks': Whenever someone thinks the retrospective is not meeting people's needs they can ask for an Alignment Check. Then everyone says a number from 0 to 10 which reflects how much they are getting what they want. The person with the lowest number takes over to get nearer to what they want.]
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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.
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Andy @ CTO Craft

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