As an engineering manager, you know that your role is about more than just managing people and projects. It’s about creating a positive and supportive work environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and collaboration. That’s where the power of servant leadership comes in. Servant leadership is […]
Working through the company ladder is like walking up the pyramid. The higher you get the lesser the opportunity. Or is it? Nevertheless, I am just taking this chance to jot down and reflect on an interesting podcast I heard as I was doing one […]
As an Engineering Manager acting as Scrum Master and Agile Coach for at least 5 years now. From being put into an established team, to starting a new team, and managing back a team I once owned. All to try to lead and decide what […]
I feel incredibly fortunate to have been sponsored by my company to attend the Black Belt in Thinking (BBIT) course. As someone whose role demands a lot of critical thinking and decision-making, I was impressed by the valuable lessons I learned and how I could […]
What’s this leadership circle profile all about? Before that, I believe in the market there are many tools to measure leadership. And this is just one of them. The way it does this is to breakdown your behavior and action against the following condition: Both […]
I believe this will be a controversial topic to most engineering managers or stakeholders. Nevertheless, having to experience different forms of refactoring in code and process, I like to share some of my thought here. Remove unwanted/redundant code and feature Let’s admit. Most of us […]
In recent years, Hackathon/hack week/hack day has been the driving force behind the innovation of the large company. It also serves multi-purpose. 1) Medium for recruitment to find passionate engineers. 2) Timeout and a change of pace from the usual backlogs. 3) Builds culture and […]
Clean code was made popular by publishing a book by Robert C. Martin titled Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. It talks about writing clean, understandable, and maintainable code is a skill that is crucial for every developer to master. “Any fool can […]
Nowadays, a good software development company that works in a team typically will establish some sort of process for code review. One of the most commonly used examples is creating a Pull-Request (PR). Commonly used in Github and open-source projects. Therefore, it is good to […]
If you don’t know what this exercise is, search for it. You’ll get the idea, is pretty straightforward. That is to plan ahead and connect with what means to you or your company, and what impact it has made over the life span. Back from […]
