Archive - Brad’s Newsletter

Effective collaboration CTO/VPE

Building on this key working relationship!

Mar 2, 2023 •

Brad Henrickson

December 2021

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…

Dec 14, 2021 •

Brad Henrickson

October 2021

Office desk setup

This is a little bit different of a post.

Oct 11, 2021 •

Brad Henrickson

September 2021

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…

Sep 3, 2021 •

Brad Henrickson

July 2021

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…

Jul 12, 2021 •

Brad Henrickson

June 2021

Quarterly Architecture Review

Building a strong technical foundation is critical for the success of your product development organization. In my last post I outlined a forum for…

Jun 20, 2021 •

Brad Henrickson

May 2021

Establishing an Architecture Council

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…

May 29, 2021 •

Brad Henrickson

March 2021

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…

Mar 31, 2021 •

Brad Henrickson

January 2021

Individual contributor to manager

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…

Jan 24, 2021 •

Brad Henrickson

September 2020

Finding balance

Our current climate has thrown a lot at people.

Sep 15, 2020 •

Brad Henrickson

May 2020

Creating engineering values

Creating engineering values

May 6, 2020 •

Brad Henrickson

March 2020

Running the search

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…

Mar 14, 2020 •

Brad Henrickson

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