Joel Chippindale's recommended links

Links to recommended articles, books, podcasts, videos etc. on a variety of subjects.

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• Building teams

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• Career development
• Change
• Coaching
• Communication
• Culture

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• Decision making
• Delegation and empowerment
• Diversity, equity and inclusion

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• Engineering leadership

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• Facilitation

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• Generative AI
• Git
• Giving and receiving feedback

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• Hiring and being hired

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• Inspirational talks

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• Learning

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• Managing time
• Managing up
• Meetings
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Metrics

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• One to ones
• Organisational structures

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• Pairing
• Pay and compensation
• Product management

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• Remote working
• Retrospectives

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• Security and compliance
• Software development
• Speaking at conferences
• Strategy
• Stress

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• Testing
• Trust

Recently added links

• Voice
  Esther Derby discusses the importance of voice and three things that you can do—from a position of formal or informal power—to make it easier for people to speak up.
• Proceed until apprehended
  Harriet Minter on the power of not waiting for explicit permission
• Building and launching a product in one month. Worth it?
  Sergio Visinoni shares reflections (the good, the bad and the ugly) on his experiences of building a product from scratch with AI coding tools
• Barry Cranford
  Barry Cranford is the founder of Tech Talent Agency RecWorks, and organises a great set of events for CTOs
• Job seeking by numbers
  Laura James shares their experience of looking for an interesting new engineering leadership role in 2024
• My engineering leadership job search in numbers
  Anna J McDougall shares their experience of looking for an engineering leadership role in 2025/26
• How to effectively write quality code with AI
  Mia Heidenstedt's tips on making the best use of AI for writing code
• How not to measure the ROI from AI in your software organization
  Cat Hicks outlines the pitfalls of measuring the return part of your investment in AI in developing software, and some valuable mitigations.
• Friction focused management
  "The question is not whether friction exists. It always does. The question is whether you have a reliable way to surface the most important friction early enough to act on it." — Petros Bountis
• How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code
  Simon Willisons commentary on an experiment to build reliable code without review by people
• What really happens in a board meeting
  Kevin Goldsmith shares his experiences of being in board meetings as a CTO
• The five types of network connections you need at work
  Jill Wetzler's categorisation is a useful lens to consider when reflecting on your current network and how you might evolve it
• Harness engineering
  Birgitta Böckeler on the rise of importance of constraining your development
• Relocating rigor
  "If you're working with generative AI now, the question to ask yourself is: where did the rigor go? ... The engineers who thrive in this environment will be the ones who relocate discipline rather than abandon it." — Chad Fowler
• 10 fundamental (but really hard) security metrics
  Phil Venables highlights a number of areas to think about when it comes to measuring your security.

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