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From Idea to Product: How to Start a Tech Business
Insights into the lifecycle of a tech startup, including key milestones and strategies for growth at each stage. If you’ve been wondering how to start a business in technology, this article is for you.
The Right Fit: Finding Specialized Tech Career Coach
Providing a step-by-step guide to finding a tech career coach, including where to look and what questions to ask.
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Urgent vs. Important: How to keep the company afloat?
During the first couple of months after starting a company you are bound to run into the issue of resource constraint. The new work will just keep arriving and the old work will not be started yet. The new tasks accumulate and create anxiety. All of the promises that...
Working in Large Corporation vs Start-Up
Working in Large Corporation vs Start-Up Topic of company stage and scale comes up in many of my conversations. “This company was so dull” and “This company was so disorganized, they never had resources and did not know what they were doing”. Sounds familiar? We all...
Time is money, but over time
How to manage your available time wisely while you still have it. Time is money, they say, when talking about how much it costs for a very busy and important person to attend to a task. Have you considered that it is also very true for you personally at any level of...
Premature Optimizations of All Kinds
How to stop building and start listening? As engineers and engineering managers our minds are wired to build. Give us a problem statement and we will get on solving it. This force is tremendous and makes us very successful at what we do. However, while building or...
Hiring Decisions – A contextual journey perspective
How to improve your hiring fits? As managers we are responsible for hiring the best people for our team. We spent hours sifting through resumes, interviewing and training candidates. However, despite our best efforts, the hires don’t always work out and we are stuck...
How to delegate effectively?
A simple approach to breaking down your heavy workload through delegation principles. If you have not been delegating yet, you must have heard numerous times that you have to do it - “You have too much work, you should delegate!”, “Why don’t you delegate it to...
Simple Change/Decision Management framework
How to make complex decision with ease. We are faced with many types of questions and challenges throughout our careers. Some are easy to answer, because we already have made up our own opinions. Others are more difficult and require an approach with more...
Improving Productivity
Help article on how to manage your incoming workflow and mitigating pesky interruptions. Do you feel like you are always running out of time? Do you feel like you are losing control of your environment? Do projects and tasks land on you and there is no easy way to...
Is there life after a bootcamp?
You are on top of the world. Welcome to the software world! After grueling weeks and months, you are finally done with your coding bootcamp. You have built tech that you could not build before and now you should be ready for many jobs in the field. But something is...