The 5-Minute Startup CTO #60

Distractions, Everything is high priority, Retrospective risks, Data engineering landscape

Hi there,

I hope you’re well!

Here are this week’s top links on People, Product, Process and Tech.

👭 People

Distractions often stop us from getting in “the flow” of productive work. Thankfully Nicholas Stewart (aka Stewie) has compiled a great list of recommendations for tackling this. Plenty of good suggestions in there, expressed concisely - great stuff!

🥫Product

Next, Roman Pichler (check out his library of templates if you haven’t already) on the challenge of prioritizing a backlog, when everything is high priority. Common-sense advice on starting from the user, the problem and the value that your product will deliver.

🔄 Process

If you don’t take a step back and think about how things are going and what can be improved, how will you, your team, or your organization ever grow?

Tim Casasola recently explained how retrospectives are for him the most important aspect of agile development. Yet they’re not a guarantee of success, so this insightful list of risks and recommendations for making them work is well worth a read.

⌨️ Tech

Nice overview of the technical landscape of data engineering. Check out the github repo for the full picture and ‘extras’!

Until next time, have a great week!

Fabrice

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The 5-Minute Startup CTO: every Sunday, 4 top insights in 5 minutes for startup CTOs and Tech Leads. Hand-picked by Fabrice, a UK-based consulting CTO.