A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups - kuchin/awesome-cto

If you're having trouble with your productivity, consider finding the root using the 5 Whys technique.

A guide for collaborating with networks of people, working together towards a common purpose.

This week I had the privilege of speaking to design students at two universities about my career. Here are some of the things I shared, most of which were answers to their questions. 1. The greatest…

For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.. “An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding” is published by Camille Fournier.

I’ve been a manager for many years at companies of different scale. Through these experiences, I’ve done my share of learning, and made some mistakes along

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An autonomous team model with teams organized around geographical or time-zone proximity can make a distributed organization more effective. With the Reverse Conway Maneuver you can deliberately add o

I’m Kitty Giraudel, a transfeminine web engineer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.

I’m Kitty Giraudel, a transfeminine web engineer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.

Anna Debenham harnesses up the huskies and puts them to work to figure out how teams distributed across multiple locations can work effectively to all pull in the same direction. With modern workforces distributed from north pole to south, can they all be kept running in step?

How does mentoring work? I asked this question ten years into my software engineering career when I joined Uber. Until then, I've never received or done mentoring, or at least never put this label on any activity I've done before. Uber, however, had an official mentoring program. Almost every engineer I met had a mentor. Mentorship is an expectation for senior and above engineers, it being listed in our engineering competencies. Since working here, I've been mentored, been a mentor, and have ob

20 years ago Amazon went through a major transformation. Here’s what we learned about building modern applications along the way.

Challenges come up all the time at work. Spend time now thinking about how you want to be seen at work, and then think about how that version of you would respond to the challenges that you could encounter. When you have a plan in place, you are much more likely to succeed.