The 5-Minute Startup CTO #48

Warriors and worriers, 50 to 500, Developer survey

Before we go into this week’s picks, Christian Idiodi’s article is a must-read:

What Can We Do: The Tech Company’s Guide to Advocating for Racial Equity

All tech companies, however small or large, really ought to heed these suggestions.

Now for this week’s 3 top picks:

👭 It’s all about People

First, David Sluss has some good advice for new technical leaders: understand the Warriors and Worriers in your team, and engage with both.

🔄 Process makes perfect

Next, David Sacks tackles that tricky phase of startups, when they scale from 50 to 500 employees, and describes an organisational method which can alleviate most of the challenges.

Lots of good ideas in there. I’m wondering though if a shorter ‘offset’ of 15 days could make it easier for the product / dev teams to follow quarterly objectives in sync with everyone else.

⌨️ If it ain’t code, don’t fix it

Lastly, StackOverflow just shared the results of its latest annual survey, painting a detailed, informative picture of developers worldwide, recent tech trends, and more.

Have a great week!

Fabrice

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The 5-Minute Startup CTO: every Sunday, 3 top insights in 5 minutes for startup CTOs and Tech Leads. Hand-picked by Fabrice, a UK-based consulting CTO.