Internal vs external engineering managers
When hiring your first engineering manager, should you look for external managers or promote from within?
Essays
When to hire your first engineering manager
What is the right number of developers in a tech organisation to start having engineering managers?
Writing memos
How written memos can help you make better and more collaborative decisions
The move to full remote - A European perspective
While US-based tech companies and workers are bullish about remote work, the move won't happen in Europe, at least not anytime soon.
The upcoming engineering management crunch in Europe
With a record amount of capital invested in European startups in 2020, a bigger number of companies are now looking to hire engineering managers. But the supply is far from meeting this new demand
Managing an underperforming engineer
How to act when an engineer is underperforming in your team, without falling into the set-up-to-fail syndrome
Building a QA team in a growing organisation
When doing headcount planning, what should be the right ratio of QA engineers per developer?
Leading experts
How to avoid imposter syndrome and succeed as a leader when managing experts on a topic you know nothing about
Scaling up an engineering team to ship a new product
What to do when startup founders want you to add new engineers to ship a new product quickly
Dealing with negative feedback from a high-level executive
What to do when good feedback during a project end up as bad feedback at the end of it, and how to avoid it