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My musings on anything from leadership to technology to entrepreneurship and back.

Jul 14, 2023

Two KPIs

Many tech teams don't use any KPIs at all. Or they use too many metrics that are misleading. That does not lead to the right things being built. Let's check out an approach that can fix metrics paralyzation.

Jul 10, 2023

People Coach Role

Growing tech organizations sometimes face the problem that they don't have team leads in each and every team. That's were the People Coach role can be really useful.

Jul 3, 2023

People Problems

Most problems in your tech department are people problems and not tech problems. Let's checkout some research and real-life examples.

Jun 26, 2023

Upgrade Hell

Not updating your software and systems will save a lot of time at the beginning. But it will hit you after a while and it will bring your engineering department to a halt. Let's discuss a simple solution.

May 15, 2023

How to Fight Procastination

Procastination sucks. But there are some ways to fight it! Let's check out some best-practices.

May 8, 2023

OKRs to Manage Your Teams

If you are a manager then OKRs are a great way to manager your teams. They allow you to set expectations straight and follow the progress of your teams over time. You should use them!

May 2, 2023

One-on-One - Best Practices

Let's check out some best practices for running great one-on-one conversations!

Apr 25, 2023

Two Characteristics of Great Engineering Departments

Deciding whether an engineering department rocks or sucks is surprisingly simple. Here are two simple characteristics to drive towards.

Apr 21, 2023

Architecture Decision Records

An engineering organization makes many decisions. Let's explore an approach that allows you to travel back in time and find out why decisions have been made in a certain way. That approach makes it also a lot simpler to think in a structured way about current challenges.

Apr 18, 2023

Two Characteristics of Great Managers

Managers have to very simple tasks. That way it is very easy to tell whether a manager does exceptionally well - or nothing at all.