Leadership is hard. You can’t please everyone all of the time. Don’t take things personally. However, always listen.

Thinking of becoming a fractional CTO? Fantastic advice here from Todd 4 steps to get your ideal clients. resources.technical-leaders.com/fcto?utm_mediu…

I’ll be speaking about building high performing teams as a fractional/interim leader next week, Friday 12th May. Free online event hosted by Barry Cranford eventbrite.co.uk/e/fcc-session-…

Monolith “good/bad” Microservices “bad/good” Unhelpful categorisations. Both have pros/cons. What’s going to work in your context (and over what time horizon?) Our industry loves extremes and the pendulum continues to swing.

Strategy means many things to many people. When someone asks for an engineering strategy don’t be afraid to ask “what do you wish to see?” Your strategy could be amazing but will likely miss the mark if the recipient was expecting something else.

I'm looking forward to sharing my experiences of hiring and building high performing teams as a fractional/interim leader at 3pm Today (London time) Still time to sign up! eventbrite.co.uk/e/fcc-session-… Thanks to Barry Cranford for organising and being our host and facilitator

No team is immune from the tuckman model of team development: forming storming norming performing

My favourite lesson in school.

A theme from the 1st day at CTO Craft conf. If you don’t create a strategy for your eng org…one of your exec peers will. Map your engineering strategy tightly to both product and business strategy. Collaborate. Don’t create one alone.

Day 1 at CTO Craft Paul Ingles’s warns us of the danger of “best practice” and advises a shift towards thinking about your specific problems and how to respond. Look at the number of deploys per month 👌

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers that know their product domain as well as their Product counterpart 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers for thinking about retention as much as you think about hiring 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers giving timely, specific & actionable feedback. 👋 Great feedback = Observed behaviour + Impact + suggestion/reflective question larahogan.me/blog/feedback-…

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers for for managing the systems of work and leading people 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers taking action following employee engagement surveys 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers thinking about retention as much as you think about hiring 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers that write job ads like a marketeer writing landing page copy 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers who deeply understand their domains architecture and participate in major design decisions 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers that spend more time listening than speaking 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers who find time in the week to focus on their own skills development.