When we touch a hot stove, we quickly remove our hands and learn never to touch it again when it’s hot.

We all learn through feedback, from the searing pain of a hot stove to the warm praise of a job well done. It’s the cornerstone...

Great leaders lead by distilling the why and the what for their teams, peers, and organization, and by overcommunicating to help drive alignment, not through control – Satya Nadella

Have you ever been on a team that’s stuck? A team where everyone is moving...

A few months ago, I spoke at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress on building high-performing software teams. The feedback from that talk has been overwhelming, and I’m thrilled it resonated with many people. In this post, I will unpack one of the key points I discussed:...

You’re overwhelmed. You have an endless list of different tasks. Your schedule is stuffed with meetings and you need more time for focused work. Each meeting you attend brings more to-do items to your unending list. You’re busy throughout the day but can hardly point to...

How do you foster execution, remove roadblocks from frontline teams?

Will Larson provided three ways to do this that I have found useful.

• First, you need to understand what’s happening on indirectly managed teams below you.

• Second, add things...

How do I build a high-performing team?

This is one of the common questions managers ask themselves. No one wants a low-performing team. We all want to build effective and high-performing teams – a team that is highly interdependent, bound with a common goal, plans...

Managers’ roles and responsibilities come in different forms and shapes, but one thing is clear: if you’re a manager, you’re there to get better outcomes from the people you work with. To be able to get better outcomes from the people you lead, you need to be able to understand...

While every organization has its own way of onboarding engineers, there are few elements that will make any engineering onboarding effective. In this post, I share thoughts I have adopted that govern how I onboard engineers into my teams.

Engineering onboarding entails communicating your company’s expectations, such as technical, process,...

As you develop your technical skills, you get to a point where you develop incredible confidence about your ability to deliver irrespective of any technical challenge thrown at you.

But the moment you take a leap into a leadership role, moving beyond leading oneself to lead others, you start to...

Last year, I broke my records of daily readings. It was the year I read the most books, and it was also the year I read the most blog posts. In 2021, I was fortunate enough to come across great posts and books that shaped my perspectives on leading software...

Building a good Application Programming Interface (API) is more than returning responses. Being a developer and having integrated with tons of APIs, I have noticed a pattern between successful API products and those that are not. It’s about solving problems with great affordance. One might...

Prior to container technology, making applications run on different environments was one of the greatest struggles for a developer. “It runs on my machine” was a common frustration you heard from engineers—including me, many times.

Like numerous engineers, I’ve built a working code on my machine that refused to then...

Microservice architecture has become the new model for building modern-day applications. While decoupled services are easy to scale and manage, increasing interactions between those services have created a new set of problems. It’s no surprise that debugging was listed as a major challenge in the Read More

We’re in the fourth industrial age, where data is accumulated, collated, analyzed, and interpreted at lightning-fast speeds. Highly competitive organizations enhance their platforms with AI, but many companies are unable to process the information they collect and use it in a meaningful way because they...

I was scrolling carelessly on Reddit a few days ago when I saw a thread on buzzwords that made me pause for a few seconds. In truth, buzzwords are powerful. They tend to express ideas and concepts in one word that are usually more popular than the core ideas they...