The 5-Minute Startup CTO #74

Team activities, Product positioning, Motivation, Slow tests

Hi there,

Hope you’re well! Here are this week’s 4 tips:

👭 People

Building teams is only that much harder remotely, so SessionLab came up with 50 simple activities to create a bit of a bond between team members, encourage collaboration, create alignment, and more.

🥫 Product

Poornima Mohandas with a short primer on Product Positioning: 5 mistakes to avoid, and a few resources and frameworks worth checking out.

🔄 Process

From the team at SnackNation, a nice compilation of 23 techniques to motivate teams, from recognition to culture, the ‘Why?’ question and much more. A fair amount isn’t really new, but this makes for a good recap.

⌨️ Tech

Charity Majors on the common reasons why tests are slow, and what to do about it. Lots of good advice for improving your CI/CD pipeline and ship faster.

Until next time, have a great week!

Fabrice

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