Lay a strong support level for your teams, even when you are away — As managers, we need to provide an excellent level of support to our team members, from technical to emotional. This is hard work that requires a lot of patience and trust from both sides and, once established, will help your team to grow pretty quickly. The Triangle

Techniques for balancing design and development planning — As engineers, we divide our work between designing solutions and building them. In this post, I'll focus on deciding how much time and effort should go into design work that happens before any execution (coding).

How to use expectations as a tool for growth and excellence — How many times have you reached a performance evaluation, or a retrospective and noticed the following phrases? “Why didn’t you help John (a junior developer) with the onboarding?” “Based on your experience, I was expecting you will take responsibility on that part” “I didn’t see any growth in that area…

How will LLMs can impact the day-to-day work of Engineering Managers and long-term changes. — Everyone is talking about AI and Large Language Models (i.e GPT), and how they are reshaping the roles of software engineers, designers, customer support, and more. The narrative seems to overlook the impact of AI on management roles. I took some time to try and break down some potential areas…

Before applying any management framework, talk and listen to your people, know who they are and what they do. — As a manager in the tech industry, you may feel pressured to implement frameworks and follow best practices to improve team performance. While these tools can be helpful, there is one key factor that can make a substantial impact on your team’s success: knowing your people well. …

Say no to advanced features, and embrace simplicity on your way to operational bliss. — Who’s it for? Any organization but mostly for: This could still be relevant if your organization has more than 20+ engineers but will require a proper structure and low level of dependencies. The Era of Mighty Tools The average seed to Series A startup uses more tools than the number of team members. Every tool has a unique…

Take a human-centered approach to evaluating your team’s metrics and determining how to use them to drive growth — Last week I reread John Cutler’s excellent article, “What Are Vanity Metrics and How to Stop Using Them,” where he reflects on product vanity metrics and how to replace them with better KPIs. After reading it, I couldn’t help but think about the recent blooming of engineering measures.

What is Tribalism, and why does it hold such a critical place in the leadership world? — Did ever wonder why tech companies love giving you T-shirts with their logo on them? Why are people willing to work insane hours while getting paid globally? In addition to personal and professional reasons, one is based on the survival instinct of our ancestors. In his book “Sapiens,” Yuval Noah…

Learn how to identify the signals that it’s time to say no — The fun part of working as engineers is that we get to solve challenges. We are expected to deliver high-quality solutions on time, which puts us under pressure. As a result, many engineers (primarily juniors) become silent when they need to say no. But how do you know when to…