The 5-Minute Startup CTO #66
Management levels, Product owner/manager, Burnout test, Fake data generators
Hi,
I hope you’re well!
Here are this week’s 4 tips - on People, Product, Process and Tech:
👭 People
Managing both individual contributors and managers requires very different skills and techniques. Lara Hogan explains brilliantly how your management work can change, as you go from leading ‘makers’ to leading ‘managers’, using her own personal experience: how she handled it, what she learnt, and more. A great read.
🥫 Product
Product owner, product manager - two terms easily confused, and whose definition often vary from one company to another.
Teresa Torres explains how she sees the difference - effectively describing how product development teams can be efficiently organised, with engineers being brought into the continuous discovery process.
🔄 Process
Burnout is a serious matter - so much so that it should be a topic at your next board meeting, argues Tomasz Tunguz from Redpoint. Have a look at the ‘quick burnout assessment’ test he mentions - could be very useful.
⌨️ Tech
I recently saw a recommendation for Mimesis, a high-performance fake data generator in Python. We’re lucky to have so many useful tools at hand - and there’s quite a few more such tools to choose from, so take your pick!
Until next time, have a great week
Fabrice
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.