Category: Engineering Leadership
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Encourage professional connections outside of your current team.
estimated reading time < 2 mins One of my more controversial views regarding relationships (excluding marriage) is that someone should ideally stick with you not because you forbade them from looking but because they’ve looked and decided you were their best option. Alignment and details matter, as with many things, but this view can and…
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Describe, Design, Decide, Develop – A framework for building things
I was asked recently if I have any general advice on how to maximize product development success, and for such a big question, where do you start? There are many frameworks, principles, tools, and practices in Product Development, but in my effort to synthesize, they point to these steps – describe, design, decide and deliver
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First Principles, Frameworks & Guiding Principles
When talking to other engineering leaders (new and even experienced ones – since every situation is different) it’s not uncommon to hear “this is great, your team/processes sound amazing but where do I really start?”. “Where do I start?” is indeed a difficult question. A few clarifications and examples would help. We could identify a…
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The 6 Different Leadership Styles You Need To Know About
Sharing an article written by the good folks at officevibe.com about leadership styles. The list could be endless, depending on who you ask and which book you read but I feel this captures them well enough for me to share. It’s a good reminder for those you might have had read too much books in…
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My Quest to be a Better Leader
Engineering Leadership (or management – some engineers are not fans of the term “manager”) is not easy as some people think. Leadership is hard enough, the complexity of people then add to that the complexity of engineers. There’s not a lot of books on the specific subject so it’s not surprisingly that I still hear…