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Thoughts on engineering leadership, conversational AI, team building, and the lessons I carry from commanding a warship to commanding an engineering organisation.
At some point in our adult life we started believing that if we bring a ton of rational arguments to the table then the other side will sympathize with us. The "rational arguments" strategy couldn't be more wrong
Living with no personal cause or high aspirations is a path some people choose to follow and this is perfectly fine if they are ok with it. So why do we feel as if we need to fix them?
Experiments help us try new things, master new skills, shape ourselves and grow eventually
Transparency is the holy grail of humans relationships nowadays and demands great effort from both sides to be accomplished
Sometimes we ignore that Agile is a mindset and a culture and not the 10 Commandments of Moses
Managers should give the appropriate room for people to grow, so they can learn from their own mistakes in an empirical way
Tech world runs with the speed of light at the moment, on the flip side depression rates are skyrocketing
At last I put my sh*t together and managed to launch the "Tech Leadership Podcast". Hope it will be fun for you too!!
A high velocity team is all about the people this very team consists of
Working for a bigger cause that makes us smile when getting up from bed on a daily basis is an amazing feeling. If you don't belong in this group then probably it is about time to make some changes for your own good.
Jumping straight ahead to our IDE in order to shoot some code might feel creative but isn’t that effective. When building web applications that solve actual and not imaginary problems we need to think as a user first and define all the paths and flows we should follow to fulfill our goal.
Engineers should not be afraid of change. Actually they should learn how to embrace it by sharpening their skillset constantly. This involves also the soft skills apart from the hard ones.