4 Engineering Manager Skills to Master for Success
While engineering is sometimes thought of as a solitary craft, building modern technology products requires cohesive and collaborative teams…
Highly Effective and Respected Managers are Playing Chess, not Checkers
Whether you’re new to managing a team or looking to improve your leadership skills, the nuances of leading others…
How to Have Difficult Conversations at Work
As a software engineer, you may spend most of your time in front of a computer, but you're still…
Strategies to Nip Negative Office Gossip in the Bud
It’s inevitable that employees who spend the majority of their time together talk amongst themselves—and most of the time,…
5 Strategies to Motivate an Apathetic Team Member
If you lead a team, chances are you selected each of them—at least in part—because they seemed excited about…
How to Get Your Team Excited About Your Next Meeting
Poorly-run meetings can be the bane of employees’ existence at work—and particularly so if they’re on the technical side…
Managing Up: The Essential Soft Skill for Success in a Rapid-Growth Company
Like it or not, many managers are under-trained and unprepared for the new role they find themselves in. The…
How to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Agile
What is Agile? Agile is a philosophy for approaching software development that focuses on fast, iterative development cycles. The…
Are Your Contractors Putting in Their Hours?
When a developer has code on their screen, how do you know they are putting in effective work? Or,…
How to Avoid Micromanaging and Become a Great Coach Instead
Congratulations! You’ve been selected to lead a team and you’re excited about the opportunity ahead. You should be! But…
Preparing Your Software Team for Change
Change is one of the hardest things for humans to handle. We crave stability and fear the unknown. This…
Managers: How to Deal with Setbacks as a Team
No matter how much goal-setting, mission-driving, motivating, and process implementation you do, your team will invariably find itself dealing…
Resolve Conflict at Work: A Step-by-Step Conversation Guide
Conflict can be a stressful experience, but it doesn’t need to be. A healthy resolution to a conflict is…