TechKeeper’s Guide #68 – How I fired myself enough times to finally become CTO?

One of the challenges of being a CTO in a "normal" startup is to be at the forefront of a new category.

For today's featured article, we chose the text which is a functional CTO story by Joshua Wöhle. He divides his development into 8 stages to present how he became a CTO. 

Besides that, in the newest issue, we highly recommend articles on how to improve your onboarding process, structuring yourself for the right workload and mitigating open source security vulnerabilities.

Enjoy the content and keep on leading! ✊

– Marcin Mazurek, The Software House

⭐️ Our favorite read

How I fired myself enough times to finally become CTO

JOSHUA WÖHLE Let's talk about a really interesting case. How the journey to become a CTO of a start-up looks like?

✊ Leadership & Culture

Treat Your Onboarding Process Like Your Build System

VPE COACH Whether you have one, ten, or a hundred engineers, a scalable onboarding process is a very high leverage activity with immediate results and has great return on investment over time.

6 Lessons I learned while implementing technical RFCs

JUAN'S AND ZEROES As an engineering leader, I value trust and believe that individual contributors should be involved in architectural and high level technical decision making.

Structuring ourselves for the right workload

NIKSILVER One of the constant challenges software engineering organisations face is not just how to prioritise the work, but how to prioritise the different kinds of work.

💡 Technology

A CTO explains cloud migration facts SMEs don't know

THE SOFTWARE HOUSE Explore the hard truth of going through cloud migration that I’ve learned from helping international customers avoid an irreversible failure.

How to Create the Ultimate Technology Vision and Strategy

CTO CRAFT For the technology side of any business, there needs to be a separate, well-defined plan to guide engineers, direct time, effort and resources, and ensure successful outcomes are achieved.

How to track and mitigate open source security vulnerabilities

O'REILLY Continuously tracking your application’s dependencies for vulnerabilities and efficiently addressing them is no simple feat.

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