Author: Steve
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How I remember things
I find it so easy to forget things. There I am making a cup of tea and remember something I need to do when I get back to my desk, do I remember – no! Within the space of two minutes, other thoughts or distractions have come along and it’s gone. The old-fashioned method of…
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Recommended Reading – September 2018
Here are a few blogs I recommend reading from this month… 6 tips to be a better manager in the most common situations you’ll face Asking for feedback from people has never resulted in too much success for me, a good tip is to “Ask for advice instead of feedback.” I do think that saying…
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“Are you on mute?” – The Tragedy of Meetings
In the echo chambers of time the phrases “Are you on mute?” and “Can you hear me?” will reverberate as an eternal reminder of how much precious time is lost in meetings. Many look back in despair at the time spent in awful meetings, it’s time that is lost forever! Has all hope disappeared for…
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Recommended Reading – August 2018
Here are a few blogs I recommend reading from this month… Maslow on Management Challenging blog looking into Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Motivation. “The famous Golden Rule, to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, is a failure of empathy.” Leaders of a team have the responsibility to meeting each person…
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Scala Central meetup talk – Learning Scala as an Engineering Manager
Below is the video of my debut meetup talk given at the Medidata Hammersmith office who hosted the Scala Central meetup on 2nd August. The talk was titled – Learning Scala as an Engineering Manager. The slides are here. Below are links mentioned during the talk: Coursera The Functional Programming Principles in Scala References, Handbooks,…
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Recommended Reading – July 2018
Some blogs I recommend reading from this month… How to Manage an Employee Who’s Having a Personal Crisis Whether we like it or not people in our teams will go through difficult times, this covers good points for supporting those people in the right way. The 4 questions you should stop asking during your one-on-one…
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Recommended Reading – June 2018
Some blogs I recommend reading from this month… What to do (and not do) during your first 2 weeks as a new manager Good advice for new managers, some are good reminders even for the more experienced. Saying “I don’t know” is a sign of humility and can be used throughout a career. How to…
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You can let things go…
Our days are busy, filled with meetings, status updates, future planning, risk assessing, decision making and the rest! The people in our teams are busy too! Above all we’re human, we have lives that impact our mood and outlook. To the point, we have bad days which means we can act in undesirable ways sometimes,…
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Recommended Reading – May 2018
Some blogs I recommend reading this month… 7 Traits That Make a Great Software Developer There are many “great developer trait” lists and I don’t think there is anything new here. I’ve included the link because it’s important for leaders to guide and coach each developer that directly reports to you on these traits. You…