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Stuff on Software Engineering Management for CTOs

Stuff I wrote over the years.

Different Programming Languages, Different Maintenance Costs

Efficiency vs. Effectivity in Software Engineering

CTOs Will Be Creators Again

Pets and Cattle in HR

Amdahl's Law and AI Productivity

Developer Ownership and Taking Responsibility - The Basics

Accountability and Developer Motivation

Different Developer Motivation Personas

CTO Coach vs. Chess Grandmaster

Why Have Daily Standups

Hope Driven Software Development

How to hold developers accountable

Take Back Control From Product Management

Launch A Project In One Day

Assess Technical Debt With a Developer Survey

AI will replace all coding

CTO, become happy again!

What does Open Source AI Even Mean

The 🪀Yo-Yo Effect of Developer Productivity

Stuck in Technical Debt? Do this

Engineering Cultures of Technical Debt

Reasons for Technical Debt

Sometimes DRY is not the right thing

Four Goal Model Explained

Mocking is an Anti-Pattern

How Unit Tests Really Help Preventing Bugs

I Had a Great Idea - E2E Testing For Free

Keep a List of Insecure Features

How I Wrote My CTO Book With My Own Tool

Accidental vs. Strategic Technical Debt

Do You Even Need A CTO As A Startup?

Dear CTO - This is Why Marketing is Getting All the Money

Goals are a Spectrum not a Number

Trust is Not a One-Way Street

Procrastination Does Not Exist

Let New Hires Write A Todo App

How To Succeed With A Rewrite - And Why They Fail

✨ Min vs Max Problem Solving

The Luck Formula

Too Many Developers Get Refactoring Wrong

Fair Developer Salaries for Remote Work

Just Use Postgres for Everything

😊 One Thing A Day For Happiness

The AI Manager - The End of Programming

The Mysterious Case of Lost Developer Productivity

The ZigZag Model of Vision and Strategy