The 5-Minute Startup CTO #63

Coaching advice, Product-Promise fit, Delivery metrics, Headless recorder

Hi there,

I hope you’re well!

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

👭 People

First, Dave Bailey shares some great advice from David Peterson (Director of Executive Coaching & Leadership at Google) on how best to grow your team. In short, providing feedback isn’t the only or best option - help them also understand their goals and success factors.

🥫Product

Years ago, Amazon popularised the practice of writing a press release for new products (or features) even before writing a single line of code. Gigi Levy-Weiss from NfX expands on this: we should establish Product-Promise fit, before aiming for Product-Market fit.

🔄 Process

Writing code is only one part of the software engineering process. Juan Pablo Buriticá discusses what metrics are useful to monitor the product delivery phase, where code is merged, deployed and released.

⌨️ Tech

Lastly, Headless Recorder is a pretty nifty “Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Puppeteer or Playwright script”.

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.