Week One of Crafting Tech Teams

Recap

Apr 30, 2023

I want to thank you, dear reader for joining me on this journey. You are part of a special cohort of pioneers who have engaged with this newsletter from the first week.

Here’s a quick recap of topics you may have missed over the week

Thank you once more for your commitment.

See you tomorrow!

Master your craft, master your tools

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April 28, 2023

Master your craft, master your tools

I’m aware that this may be an unpopular opinion about typing speed, keyboards and toolings. I’m not claiming that engineers on your team need to be extremely fast typists. But the typing shouldn’t slow them down. Eyes on screen Practice touch-typing, dvorak or split-keyboard with a Kinesis. Relax your wrists, elbows and palms while you are typing and get u…

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What Recurring Issue is Your Team Complaining About?

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April 29, 2023

What Recurring Issue is Your Team Complaining About?

You have a lot to juggle as a tech leader and most senior person on your team. Roadmaps, estimates, onboarding, off-boarding, crisis meetings, vacation time, security, delivering fast, maintaining high quality. The list is as long as you can imagine.

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Crafting Tech Teams

Balancing your execution, re-planning the roadmap

The roadmap is considered a holy document for most tech organisations. It ties together commitments between interdependent departments in ways that requires careful (and expensive) planning steps, estimations, projections and good will towards achieving the seemingly impossible while remaining optimistic…

2 years ago · 1 like · 1 comment · Denis Čahuk

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Domain-Driven Design is about Language, not Code

Here’s 5 DDD pitfalls you need to watch out for to avoid getting trapped. It’s easy to get carried away following the blue book. Where I see developers struggle the most is when adopting a framework that should be following DDD principles but isn’t…

2 years ago · 2 likes · 1 comment · Denis Čahuk

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What should you prioritise when building a new team?

Someone asked me a great question: What would I do if I were building a new startup team from scratch? It’s easy to get lost in the weeds trying to optimize everything while at the same getting advice on staying lean and not optimizing anything. Advice always depends on the giver’s assumption-stack…

2 years ago · 3 likes · 2 comments · Denis Čahuk

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Estimations are a Two-way Street

Knowledge you need to estimate is acquired mid-way through the project. That puts you in a tough spot at the beginning of the project.Thanks for reading Crafting Tech Teams! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. What is the root cause…

2 years ago · 2 likes · 1 comment · Denis Čahuk

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