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Engineering Leadership Challenges

These articles offer strategies for managing difficult situations. While I can't solve your problems, I hope to help by showing different aspects and perhaps a new perspective.

Celebrating Failure

A small mindset change from "tolerating" to "celebrating" mistakes can benefit the person and the organization through learning and system improvements, increasing innovation, transparency, and resilience – if it's done well, being mindful of all aspects and risks.

How to Drive Change Beyond Your Role

What can you do when you're not in a leadership role but want to push for a change in your team? What aspects are helpful in this situation, and what can managers do to encourage taking initiatives?

How to Prepare for an Engineering Manager Role?

A list of 50 concrete actions to help approach this career change, things Software Engineers can try today in their current role to grow the skills necessary for becoming a successful Engineering Manager.

How To Represent Decisions You Disagree With

How to stand in front of your team representing a decision you didn't agree with? How to keep your integrity and support the team going through the change? What approaches are useful and what's better avoided in turbulent times?

How to Deal with Negative Behavior

Thoughts on the aspects a manager should take into account when the negative behavior of someone on their team is impacting others - or themselves.

Three Tools to Improve the Performance of Engineering Teams

Practical approaches for diagnosing and improving engineering team performance, with three introductory tools aimed at teams who are less data-reliant in their decision-making process: Code Review Time, Cumulative Flow Diagram, and Team Health Checks.

Unlocking the Potential of One‑on‑One Discussions

Exploring key aspects of One-on-One discussions between managers and their team members, focusing on trust, clarity, execution support and personal development. These meetings are essential tools for understanding and guiding team members towards growth, beyond their day-to-day tasks.

How to succeed as a first-time remote engineering leader - part 2

Last week I wrote about what I believe is the most important aspect of being a new engineering manager for a team: building trust by nurturing connections. Getting intentional about this is more important for a remote leader, because there are less accidental opportunities to create the social foundation of

How to succeed as a first-time remote engineering leader?

So, you’ve got your first fully remote engineering leadership job, congratulations! Now, just a few days to start, the realization hits hard: you have no idea how this is different from your previous in-office or hybrid experience, how to make it work without being there physically. At least, this