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Creating environments which people feel comfortable in is critical to having a strong successful team and to reduce drama. In my years as a leader it’s…
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This is a little bit different of a post. I’ve had a lot of people see my desk setup, love using it and ask a lot of questions about it. I’ve spent a…
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Early in my career I had a fantastic manager who would keep on asking “what are we managing to”? I hadn’t heard this asked before and it took me a while…
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It was the late 2000s and work for me was do or die. If I wasn’t able to build a company, team, product then it was clear that I was doomed to be a…
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Building a strong technical foundation is critical for the success of your product development organization. In my last post I outlined a forum for…
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The organization had just attempted the third rewrite of an existing system. This rewrite was once again not successful even with the amount of work…
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At one of my companies we were working through the challenges of building a startup, all of us on one team, but in another sense each of us were on an…
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For all managers there is a point in their career where they were working as an IC (individual contributor) and they made the step across the chasm to a…
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Our current climate has thrown a lot at people. Before COVID hit most of us were already operating at 100%, after we have continued to onboard more…
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Creating engineering values I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about how my teammates at Scoop identify how we want to act as a community. We…
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If you’ve gone through the work of orienting your search and have found a few opportunities which look like a match for you, then you should be ready to…
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I had returned from taking a long break from work and was seeking to find a new exciting role. I didn’t have to have a job right away, but I knew that I…
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