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As a CTO, Interim CTO, CTO Coach - and developer - I have seen many technology departments in fast-growing startups. As a kid I taught myself coding in a department store around 1981 because I wanted to write video games. When the internet came to Germany in the 90 I worked as the first coder in several startups. Late I founded a VC funded startup, worked in VC funded, fast growing startups with architecture, processes and growth challenges, worked as a manager for ImmoScout and as a CTO of an eBay Inc. company. After my wife successfully sold her startup we moved to the sea and I took up CTO coaching. You can find me on LinkedIn
Archive
- #86 | Why Developers Never Get Faster
- #85 | Experts vs. Imitators | Amazing CTO 85
- #84 | Test-Mocking is an Anti-Pattern | Amazing CTO
- #83 | Take LLM action now + ChatGPT reset | Amazing CTO
- #82 | 💳 At Stripe: Developer tooling & DX | Amazing CTO
- #81 | 🎯 Meet Stephan + BP:We need 70% less coders because AI | Amazing CTO
- #80 | Don't measure productivity! 🍎 Why it doesn't matter that the Vision Pro is a big flop | Amazing CTO
- #79 | 🧠 Programming Is Mostly Thinking | Amazing CTO
- #78 | The CTO: A start-up’s hardest position | Amazing CTO
- #77 | Meta goes Monolith! | Amazing CTO
- #76 | The CTO Blues Song & 04/24 Software Architecture Trends Report | Amazing CTO
- #75 | Jason Fried, 37signals: Making Decisions
- #74 | Why you need a macro architecture + Brilliant Jerks in Engineering | Amazing CTO
- #73 | Developer Productivity via Humans | Words on Testing | Amazing CTO
- #72 | About joy: Engineering skills as CTO + Leadership Is A Hell Of A Drug | Amazing CTO
- #71 | LinkedIn Developer Productivity and Happiness Framework & Claude 3 claims it's conscious | Amazing CTO
- #70 | Your First Year as a CTO & Simplicity in a legacy environment | Amazing CTO
- #69 | How to keep engineers out of meeting hell | Amazing CTO
- #68 | How to hire high potential people & Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer | Amazing CTO
- #67 | How hard is it to cheat with ChatGPT in technical interviews?
- #66 | Tech Strategy and Vision | AmazingCTO
- #65 | 2024 CTO Job Market & Balancing Engineering Cultures | AmazingCTO
- #63 | How many direct reports should a manager have? | AmazingCTO
- #62 | CTOs Shape Up! | Amazing CTO
- #60 | Code Llama is as good as GPT-4 | Model Teams by Modeling Interactions | Just Use Flutter | Amazing CTO
- #59 | Sabotaging your Salary Negotiation | Free AI Copilot from Meta | Amazing CTO
- #57 | The Problem with Velocity & Tension Is Rising Around Remote Work| Amazing CTO
- #55 | ChatGPT Code Interpreter runs Python Code | Amazing CTO
- #54 | Sorry
- #53 | 🤖 No Programmers in Five Years | What Do We Owe Our Teams? | Amazing CTO
- #52 | 💰 $1M developer Salary at OpenAI & Evil VC empires | Amazing CTO Newsletter
- #51 | 🤖 New way development: Elon Musk's cost-cutting methods praised by Reddit CEO | Estimation Isn’t for Everyone
- #50 | 👨💻 The future of software engineering: self-healing code | The CTO Revelation | Amazons first engineering hire
- #49 | For you: Building Top Performing Teams, Unveiling Productivity Drivers, and ChatGPT Best Practices
- #48 | 📢 Empowering CTOs: 🌟 Lessons in Giving Away Your People | Replace your CEO with an LLM
- #47 | CTOs: Boosting Team Performance with Psychological Safety, Scaling Productivity, and Effective Engineering Management Principles
- #46 | As CYO Deciding to leave your job & Managers are human too | Amazing CTO
- #45 | Tech Insights: Unlocking Efficiency through System Design, Human Understanding, and DRI Accountability
- #44 | On my desk: new CTO book for CTOs and tech managers
- #43 | 👑 Become a better CTO: Crafting an Engineering Strategy, Identifying Red Flags in Technical Due Diligence, and Balancing Founder Intuition, Team Expertise, and Customer Expertise
- #42 | 🦹 CTO Role Insights: How to Succeed as a CTO, Reading A Manager's Mind, and the Surprising Link Between Swearwords and Code Quality
- #41 | Uncover the Latest Tech Trends: Avoid the Tech Lead Management Trap, Embrace the 1x Engineer Mindset, and the Dead of the Big Data
- #40 | Unlocking the Power of Middle Management, Demystifying the Python Paradox & Minimizing Technical Debt: A Guide to 2x Team Impact
- #39 | CTOs Revolutionizing Developer Salaries: The Impact of ChatGPT and Human-Centered Productivity
- #38 | Maximize Your CTO Role: Master the Art of Measuring Engineering, Leverage Small High-Performing Teams, and Implement Deep Work in an Asynchronous Culture
- #37 | 🦹 How Scrum Has Failed the Developers + Top 10 qualities of a good CTO
- #36 | 💻 Study: Code Quality improves developer productivity + Give me ideas for crimes to do
- #35 | ⛔ Just Say No + Startup Restructuring 101 | The Amazing CTO #35
- #34 | 🐛 Debugging teams + Only Solve One New Problem At A Time
- #33 | 📝 Scaling Engineering Checklist + I drink before I interview
- #32 | 👨💻 Kent Beck on Development Environments in the Cloud
- #31 | ☀ Maintain engineering velocity as you scale + not losing candidates
- #30 | ☁ Rails Inventor leaving the cloud - Martin Fowler on engineering vs. product - The AMAZING CTO 30.1
- #29 | 📉 How not to layoff developers + what % 2022 layoffs are devs - The AMAZING CTO 29.1
- #28 | 📅 Why development deadlines are pointless + feeling guilt signals a leader - The AMAZING CTO 28.1
- #27 | 🤖 GitHub Copilot’s impact on productivity and happiness + How to scale - The AMAZING CTO 27.1
- #26 | 🥇 Netflix’s introduces engineer levels + boost development performance - The AMAZING CTO
- #25 | Why your 🦄 startup is worth joining and 8 Productivity Experiments - The AMAZING CTO 25.1
- #24 | 🎑 Rituals for Engineering Teams and who much to pay for oncall? - The AMAZING CTO 24.1
- #23 | Bug🐛 rates: Do programming languages have an impact? - The AMAZING CTO 23.1
- #22 | 🏁 Finish what you start for productivity - The AMAZING CTO 22.1
- #21 | Technical debt 📉 should be called Technical Shorts - The AMAZING CTO 21.1
- #20 | CTO: The 👨🔬 Einstein Principle and why long-term plans don't work - The AMAZING CTO 20.1
- #19 | 💬 Interview with a CTO and A/B testging is bad - The AMAZING CTO 19.1
- #18 | How a fake 👩🚀 job offer can kill your company and CTOs taking back control with innovation - The AMAZING CTO 18.1
- #17 | 🧙 Steve Jobs On Recruiting People and The Ideal Praise-to-Criticism Ratio - The AMAZING CTO 17.1
- #16 | 💡 Innovation for CTOs, hacked by HDMI and the end of product management - The AMAZING CTO 2⁴.1
- #15 | Why 🤖 Big Tech doesn't use Scrum - The AMAZING CTO 15.1
- #14 | The toxic productivity trap and facts in software engeenring - The AMAZING CTO 14.1
- #13 | Upturn 📈 in the CTO job market, how our thinking ruins our management style and an interview - The AMAZING CTO 13.1
- #12 | Winter☃️ is coming to your company + when everything is important - The AMAZING CTO 12.1
- #11 | The saddest 'Just Ship It' story ever and the Supermarket of Software - The AMAZING CTO 11.1
- #10 | What Makes a CTO Amazing, 💸 $350,000 for Graduates and a Book - The AMAZING CTO 10.1
- #9 | Engineering culture that helps, 📚 a suprising book recommendation and saying no - The AMAZING CTO 9.1
- #8 | Why no-code doesn't scale, success is elusive and developers with two full time jobs - The AMAZING CTO 8.1
- #7 | The CTO Job Market ⛅, quality of remote jobs and start with the WHY! - The AMAZING CTO #7
- #6 | Three week outages, 🐛 bugs, bugs, bugs and AI again - The AMAZING CTO #6
- #5 | Burnouts, AI, Idea flow and an interview - The AMAZING CTO #5
- #4 | Mourning, staff engineers and successful onboarding - The AMAZING CTO #4
- #3 | About negativity in software development - Amazing CTO Newsletter #3
- #2 | About 1:1s, job titles and 'Gen-Z Mode' - Amazing CTO Newsletter #2
- #1 | Amazing CTO Newsletter #1 - The CTO Role, Location based remote salaries and more