Results from Work Mode Survey
I ran a survey over a month ago to determine the “new normal” work mode. Over a couple of weeks, my newsletter received 100+ responses, …
Modern Organisations
The Trident Model of Career Development
Many tech companies use a growth framework or a career ladder to aid managers and staff with growth or promotion conversations. You can see many …
Book Recommendations By Engineering Leaders
I’m stunned to have met several people in my career who proudly say, “I have never read a [technical/leadership] book.” I certainly acknowledge information is …
Book Review and Notes of Team Topologies
Book Review In our book, “Building Evolutionary Architectures” we talked about the Inverse Conway Maneuver, or using Conway’s Law to your advantage. Conway’s Law implies …
5 Engineering Manager Archetypes
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” — Phil Karlton Introduction In today’s tech organisations, you find 2 …
Book Review: The Unicorn Project
The book’s background It’s rare to read a lot of books like The Unicorn Project. Like its predecessor, The Phoenix Project, it uses a business …
The Essential Guide to Taming Hypergrowth
During my time as CTO at N26, I experienced first hand a company experiencing hypergrowth. As a leader responsible for managing and scaling tech, I …