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Expert CTO coaching from Stephan Schmidt. 25 years as engineering leader, 100+ CTOs mentored in 1200+ sessions. Solve delegation, technical debt, and team scaling challenges.

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2026 29

  1. Super Senior
  2. Coaching for Startup Founder CEOs
  3. The Amazing CTO Book
  4. How to Run Claude Code in YOLO Mode Without Losing Your CredentialsAIDEVELOPMENTSECURITY
  5. Structure Your Tech Department Around OwnershipCTOTEAMMANAGEMENT
  6. You Can Be That Book SellerAIBOOK
  7. What is CTO Coaching?
  8. Everyone Wants a Chief AI Officer. Most Companies Don't Need One.ESSAYAICTOLEADERSHIP
  9. Misconceptions About Hiring DevelopersCTOHIRINGTEAM
  10. Grep or LSP in Claude Code? You Want BothESSAYAIDEVELOPMENT
  11. Hiring Developers When the AI Writes the CodeESSAYAIHIRINGTEAM
  12. GraphQL Comeback Because of AI?AIAPI
  13. You Already Live in an Illusion. Get Over It.ESSAYAIDEVELOPER
  14. Everyone Gets Jevons Paradox WrongESSAYAIDEVELOPMENT
  15. Claude just got a new superpowerAIDEVELOPMENT
  16. Stop Using Claude Code Like a Blind TypewriterAIGODEVELOPMENT
  17. The Team of TwoESSAY
  18. Audience of One Apps: The coming Rapture of the SaaS modelESSAY
  19. The Ontology of Leadership: Why Good Managers Build WorldsESSAY
  20. A New Kind of TestingTESTINGDEVELOPMENT
  21. The AI Roadmap for CTOs [2026]
  22. CTO Challenges
  23. CPTO Coaching for the CTO-to-CPTO Transition
  24. The Biggest Startup Mistake
  25. CTO Advisory - Fix Your Tech Problems Now
  26. 7 Signs You Need a Fractional CTOCTOFRACTIONALSTARTUP
  27. What is a Fractional CTO?CTOFRACTIONALSTARTUP
  28. What does a CTO do and what is their role?
  29. Reasons I Found Why AIs Struggle With CodingAI

2025 63

  1. 1:1s for Engineering Managers
  2. Tech Strategy for CTOs
  3. What is a CAIO?
  4. Who is the CTO of Apple, Google, Microsoft & More
  5. Engineering Manager & Tech Lead Coaching
  6. Interim vs Fractional vs Outsourced CTO
  7. Just Use Postgres for Everything
  8. What is a CPTO or CTPO?
  9. Metrics and KPIs for EngineeringCTO
  10. Dein CTO Coach: Coaching das funktioniert
  11. The Weekly Newsletter for CTOs Who Want to Get Better
  12. Code First, UI SecondAI
  13. Creators and CodersCTO
  14. Four Levels of ManagementCTO
  15. Act like Meta, if you are MetaCTO
  16. One Thing A Day For HappinessCTOPERFORMANCE
  17. Engineering Managers vs. Office Politics: What You Need to KnowCTO
  18. Tech Needs a Revenue Attribution ModelCTOKPI-OKR
  19. AI Knows Everything, But Not What You KnowAI
  20. No Servant LeaderCTO
  21. The AI Coding IllusionAI
  22. The ZigZag Model of Vision and StrategyCTO
  23. You Generate It, You Own It: Navigating AI-Owned and Human-Owned CodeCTO
  24. Vision and Strategy Made EasyCTO
  25. AI - Coming Role ChangesSTARTUP
  26. AI - What CEO's often get wrong about prototypesSTARTUP
  27. Refactoring - Everyone Gets It WrongCTO
  28. Optimizing Development and Engineering Performance
  29. What to work on as a CTO
  30. AI Strategy for CTOs
  31. AI Workshop for Your Developers
  32. Abstraction as a Developer FootgunTECHNICALDEBT
  33. Ultimate Guide to Meetings - everything I know about meetings
  34. Why We Need ManagementTEAMCTO
  35. Faq
  36. Success Stories
  37. How to Faster Find a BugGOTESTING
  38. Don't Get Blackmailed - About Pay Rises And CustomersCTO
  39. CPTO - How to do it rightCTO
  40. CTOs: Own AI or Lose It—Become the CAIOCTO
  41. Comparing Compiler Errors in Go, Rust, Scala, Java, Kotlin, Python, Typescript, and ElmGO
  42. CTOs, go fully remote yourself!CTO
  43. Build Tools for GoGO
  44. How to Assess Company Culture for a CTO RoleCTO
  45. How Go Is DifferentGO
  46. How I made Inkmi Self Healing with Go and SystemdSTARTUP
  47. How to Find a CTO Job CTO
  48. The Interview Process For CTOsCTO
  49. Levels of a Modulith - vs MicroservicesGO
  50. How to Negotiate Salary for New CTO JobCTO
  51. Building Your Personal Brand as a CTO in the Job MarketCTO
  52. Securing Credentials in Golang With Systemd GO
  53. Signing Coupons to Prevent FraudGO
  54. Simple Example on How To Use Casbin for Ownership Access ControlGO
  55. The Simplicity of Single-File Golang DeploymentsGO
  56. The AI Manager - The End of ProgrammingAITEAM
  57. Web UI Testing With GoGOTESTING
  58. Why I Chose Go over Rust for InkmiGO
  59. Is CTO Coaching Right for You? Let's Find Out Together
  60. Best CTO Books - The Reading List for CTOs
  61. 10 Rules to Reduce Time to MarketCTODELIVERYSTRATEGY
  62. Hire a Fractional CTO, Solve Your Tech Problems
  63. CIO vs CTO

2024 43

  1. Different Programming Languages, Different Maintenance CostsTECHNICALDEBT
  2. Efficiency vs. Effectivity in Software EngineeringCTO
  3. CTOs Will Be Creators AgainCTO
  4. Pets and Cattle in HRTEAM
  5. Amdahl's Law and AI ProductivityAIPERFORMANCE
  6. Developer Ownership and Taking Responsibility - The BasicsCTO
  7. Accountability and Developer MotivationTEAMPERFORMANCE
  8. Automatic Management to Save TimeCTOTEAM
  9. The Mysterious Case of Lost Developer ProductivityCTO
  10. Different Developer Motivation PersonasCTO
  11. CTO Coach vs. Chess GrandmasterCTO
  12. Why Have Daily StandupsDELIVERYTEAM
  13. Hope Driven Software DevelopmentDELIVERY
  14. How to hold developers accountableTEAMPERFORMANCE
  15. Take Back Control From Product ManagementCTOSTRATEGYKPI-OKR
  16. Launch A Project In One DayDELIVERYSTARTUP
  17. Assess Technical Debt With a Developer SurveyTECHNICALDEBT
  18. AI will replace all codingAI
  19. CTO, become happy again!CTOCAREER
  20. The 🪀Yo-Yo Effect of Developer ProductivityPERFORMANCE
  21. Stuck in Technical Debt? Do thisTECHNICALDEBTESTING
  22. Engineering Cultures of Technical DebtTECHNICALDEBT
  23. Reasons for Technical DebtTECHNICALDEBT
  24. Sometimes DRY is not the right thingTECHNICALDEBT
  25. Four Goal Model ExplainedCTOKPI-OKR
  26. Mocking is an Anti-PatternDELIVERYTESTING
  27. How Unit Tests Really Help Preventing Bugs DELIVERYTESTING
  28. I Had a Great Idea - E2E Testing For FreeDELIVERYTESTING
  29. Keep a List of Insecure FeaturesCTOSTRATEGY
  30. My Workshops that help you
  31. Grok or StockholmTECHNICALDEBT
  32. Accidental vs. Strategic Technical DebtTECHNICALDEBT
  33. Do You Even Need A CTO As A Startup?STARTUP
  34. CTO Coaching That Actually Works
  35. Upgrading my WSL with Zsh and better toolsGO
  36. Dear CTO - This is Why Marketing is Getting All the MoneyCTOSTRATEGY
  37. Goals are a Spectrum not a NumberCTOKPI-OKR
  38. Trust is Not a One-Way StreetCTO
  39. Procrastination Does Not ExistPERFORMANCE
  40. Let New Hires Write A Todo AppTEAM
  41. Learn from Success Not From FailureCTO
  42. I love UnsubscribesCTO
  43. How To Succeed With A Rewrite - And Why They FailTECHNICALDEBTSTRATEGY

2023 11

  1. Books on HackerNews for CTOs - Reviewing 2023CTOCAREER
  2. Min vs Max Problem SolvingCTOSTRATEGY
  3. The Luck FormulaCAREER
  4. Development Speed: From Idea to Release in One DayCTO
  5. Too Many Developers Get Refactoring WrongTECHNICALDEBT
  6. Tests Are Bad For DevelopersDELIVERYTESTING
  7. Three Fundamentals of Software EstimationDELIVERY
  8. The 5 Reasons Not to Use ScrumDELIVERY
  9. Fair Developer Salaries for Remote WorkCAREERTEAM
  10. Musings about error handling mechanisms in programming languagesGO
  11. CTO Jobs Openings for Hiring a Chief Technology Officer

2022 13

  1. CTO vs CEO - how cooperation can workCTOSTRATEGY
  2. Rule Number 1 for CTOs: Frame for impact CTO
  3. How many developers do you need?TEAMSTRATEGY
  4. How to Outsource Development SuccessfullyTEAMSTRATEGY
  5. Datenschutzerklärung
  6. Product Roadmaps for CTOsCTO
  7. Scrum is no longer fit with remote workDELIVERY
  8. Selfhealing Code for Startup CTOs and Solo FoundersGOSTARTUP
  9. We see the AI Endgame for Software EngineeringAISTRATEGY
  10. Comparing SQL, SQL JSON, ORM and GraphQL performance in GolangGOPERFORMANCE
  11. Startup CEOs learned Engineering Management from Captain KirkSTARTUPTEAM
  12. Why Everything Takes Longer and Longer in Growing Startups STARTUPPERFORMANCE
  13. Why we always end up with waterfallDELIVERY

Undated 20

  1. Amazing CTO
  2. Challenges
  3. Rss
  4. Articles for CTOs
  5. Engineering Career Ladder
  6. Impressum
  7. Newsletter archive
  8. Speaking
  9. Why I'm Different - Your Other CTO Podcast
  10. How to Become a CTOCTO
  11. First-Time CTO
  12. Scaling Pains
  13. Imposter Syndrome
  14. Bottleneck CTO
  15. Dev to Manager
  16. The VP Engineering Challenge
  17. Lonely Leader
  18. Tech Turnaround
  19. Strategic Decisions
  20. Technical Debt Crisis