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The Startup CTO's Handbook
The Startup CTO's Handbook, a book covering leadership, management and technical topics for leaders of software engineering teams - ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook
Brownfield, or heavily impeded by tech debt with unclear paths for paydown/refactoring Regularly changing or saddled with unpredictable priorities Dependent on adopting new and different tools and patterns that can introduce unexpected costs in the first few implementations Assigned to a brand-new team that doesn't have a history working together or on these types of projects At this point it may be worth investing in DX more formally on the roadmap, or even with dedicated headcount, to ensure that tools are working and developers don't lose large chunks of time fighting the system instead of writing productive code. Be careful: enforcing style in your continuous integration system without automatic formatting is very frustrating for engineers, so make sure to train everyone in setting up their IDE correctly on day one to avoid consistent surprises and wasted cycle time from lint failures in CI.
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