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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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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...
What is possible? Are you limiting your future horizons?
Our past experiences can sometimes limit our possibilities for the future. Try to expand your horizons beyond what you already have experienced for fresh perspectives and opportunities. How brings you here? Do you ever feel trapped or held back by invisible barriers...
From Chaos to Structure on the Operations Team
Problem At my previous technology job, I was assigned a team that was malfunctioning and had a reputation of not being able to do much quality work. Nothing would ever come out of it, and when it did, it was incomplete and full of bugs. Engineers were rarely available...
Building and Formalizing a Career Ladder in a Startup
Problem "Most engineers dream of continuously growing and expanding their skills and competencies, but not always do they know how to." "Small startups typically lack career ladders which curtail their growth." "While essential -- due to the small size of their teams...