Moving forward and looking backwards — find the balance to grow. Performance review Most companies have them. Each year, or each half year, you write out your accomplishments for the period and rate your own work. As a manager, you also write up feedback for your reports for that period based on…

3 steps to actively grow your team. — As a software engineer manager you wear many hats: a technical advisor to guide complexity and tradeoff discussions a project manager to track delivery of work a coordinator to streamline non-blocking cross teams dependencies a negotiator to fend off unrealistic requests from the other departments or founders a company promoter…

When it comes to today’s business world, the culture that’s instilled within an office or workplace environment serves as a key indicator to the success of the business. Why? Well, because a positive work environment allows employees to thrive. And yet, instilling that positive workplace culture isn’t as easy as…

The Step-by-Step Leader Guide — One of the biggest challenges facing corporations, companies, and businesses today is that of turnover. In one survey releases on 600 U.S. businesses with 50–500 employees, it was found that 63.3% of respondents said retaining their employees is actually harder than hiring them. …

Consider this: your team is stuck with the same scope of responsibilities in what appears to be a never ending cycle. As a software manager you are also stuck. If your team does not grow, you don’t grow. It’s that simple. …