Your Favorite Bytes in 2025 🎁🎄

Special Issue #76 Bytes - Happy Holidays from the groCTO Editorial Team

Wishing you a Merrrrry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎁🎄

2025 saw turmoil in engineering orgs across the globe as AI adoption, leaner team structures and heavy focus on productivity and wellbeing metrics rejuvenated the entrenched IT and Product Engineering scene. Lets start with the years’ highlights, the most popular, clicked and shared topics for you to review and connect with the wider community.

The groCTO editorial wishes you happy festivities, a happy new year and a healthy start to 2026.

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Most Popular Staff+ Bytes ⭐️

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Most Loved Management Bytes ⭐️

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Most Useful Typo CTO Guide ⭐️

Honorable Mentions

• Engineering Performance Playbook; Product lessons from N26 CPO; Microsoft’s Copilot Study; Balancing TDD between design and testing 🏅

• Scrum vs. Not-Scrum, A day in the life of “10x Developer” teams, Hard-work Myths 🏅

• Engineering vs Project Management; Improving AI Products; Effective Delegation; Bad Management; Is it “Done”? 🏅

• Insufficient JIRA Dashboards; Aspirational Leadership; Great Code Review Communication; Developers’ Skills Atrophy with AI 🏅

Find yourself 🌻

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That’s it for Today! Once again, a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year 🍾

See you next year. Ciao 👋

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Credits 🙏

Curators - Diligently curated by our community members Denis & Varun

Sponsors - This newsletter is sponsored by Typo AI - Engineering Intelligence Platform for the AI Era.

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