Career
Like every person on earth is different, so is every manager. In this article we will look at manager types I experienced: the Tech Lead Manager, the Laissez-Fair Manager, the Newly-Made Manager, and the Fearful Manager. Let's figure out how you can best deal with those archetypes.
Career
Leaders can be everywhere. You don't need experience to lead a team. In this article I will go through traits that will be helpful though. I will describe scenarios that you can watch out for when you want to lead without experience.
Career
Discover how to leverage three distinct engineer archetypes—Coding Monsters, Workaround Finders, and Glues—to build high-performing teams as a Tech Lead.
Career
Navigate the volatile tech landscape with strategies to safeguard your career. Learn why your job isn't family and how to thrive amid uncertainty.
Career
Current or aspiring Tech Lead? These 4 key insights will set you up for success and make you the top candidate when opportunities arise.
Career
In the tech world hard skills are the traits with which you get a foot into the door. If you want to grow your career or want to lead at some point, that won't be enough. In this article, I am sharing a few benefits of changing your mindset when becoming a Tech Lead.
Career
Win-Win can be a game-changer in your team and company. Here are three strategies that will help you to make the first step towards implementation.
Career
In the work environment - but also at home - there is one behavior which will differentiate you from all others if done right. This is one of the skills that is worth practicing again and again as it will benefit you tremendously. Reaching Win-Win.
Engineering
Having a gut feeling that the system you are working on is too complex? But you are missing numbers about the consequences? This article will give insights about the magnitude of the consequences ad pointers for a discussion with fellow engineers and managers.
Engineering
Many approaches exist to handle complexity in a software system. In this article I will touch three of them: general- vs. special-purpose modules, using layers and staying consistent.
Engineering
In programming some modules feel more complex than others. Why is that? Often the complex modules do not hide their complexity well.
Expat Life
Over a year ago my family and I moved to China to work and live. Time for a retrospective. What turned out how I expected it, what did not?
