career
Why isn’t my manager listening to me? Mastering six levels of influence to push your ideas.
Don’t just bring up problems. Tell the managers what they get in return.
2024-04-14
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strategy
Earn Six Figures in 6 Months: Your Guide to Landing 30+ Clients and Growing Your Business
Currently, I’m guiding two extra mentees with a different mission: They want to follow my path as a solopreneur. Together, we’re exploring how to build a solo venture, reaching over 300 billable sessions per year.
2024-04-03
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11 Keys to Mastering Performance Reviews: The Good, The Bad, The Successful Elements of Career Frameworks
Have you ever thought about conducting performance reviews that your team actually loves? You have the power to establish a system that brings value to both you and your team.
2024-02-26
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Hiring A Software Engineering Manager? 10 Interview Questions to Help You Make the Right Bet.
How do I onboard an Engineering/Tech Manager ace ♣️ in just 3 months? Do this:
1️⃣ Decide how much of Technical/Delivery, Leadership and Process scope you plan to assign to this #role (❌not all the 3 at once, please!)
2️⃣ See the Top 10 Interview Questions to Help You Make the Right Bet.
3️⃣ Captain Obvious: No generic job desc.
2024-02-16
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blog
Want to get promoted? The software developer’s secret weapon for advancing in your career.
Developers think about technical skills when they want a career promotion. But managers care equally about a broader set of qualities.
2024-02-12
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blog
My 2024 Solopreneur Strategy: 5 Key Objectives to Outperform as a Fractional Advisor and Coach in the Tech Industry
No strategy → no focus → no improvements → no differentiators → no happiness in what I do → back to employee mode. Having no strategy in mind leaves the door open for competitors and partners to swiftly outpace me. In just a single year, I could find myself back in employee mode, overshadowed by those who planned more strategically.
2023-12-21
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Don’t Do DORA Metrics First: Rethinking Team Performance Indicators
What’s the purpose of having expensive highly performing teams if they don’t work on things that matter the most, having 60% off-roadmap contribution?
2023-12-07
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blog
How my unconventional solopreneur strategy put me in an unbeatable spot
A well-crafted battle plan is your strategic compass when navigating the competitive landscape of client engagement. It ensures you’re armed with the right strategies, enabling you to conquer challenges, exceed expectations, and emerge victorious.
2023-11-08
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blog
How to Succeed as a Consultant on a Client’s Site: 10 Steps to Dominate.
Becoming a Successful Consultant: It’s Not Guesswork, It’s a Solid Battle Plan.
2023-10-15
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leadership
To 300+ Billed coaching Sessions in the First Year: Comprehensive Strategy and Insights.
Achieving a $300,000 with My Central European Software Engineering Leadership Venture.
2023-08-30
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blog
Is There a Better Way to Do One-on-Ones? Let’s Find Out.
feel like my one-on-ones could work better. There is room for enhancement, not sure where or how.
2023-06-15
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blog
🎓 What a Staff Engineer role is all about?
Are you grappling with uncertainty when it comes to introducing a Staff Engineer role within your organization? Do you wonder about their work’s scope and how they can truly amplify talent? Perhaps you’re even pondering questions like their programming involvement and how to harness their abilities from day one. If these thoughts resonate with you, this pamphlet offers guidance and sheds light on these topics.
2023-05-17
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blog
9 Solid Tips To Grow Your Team’s Talent in a Year
“I have no time to grow my teammates. We have to deliver
… I can’t keep up with the pace anymore.” 😔
2023-03-15
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blog
VP of Engineering @ Mews – A look back on my 1st year
Life is fun! Joining a new company in April 2020 couldn’t have been easier: The Prague HQ office got closed due to the virus whose name we shall not mention. That said, all my individual introductions with engineers, team leads, my peers, and the leadership board were done remotely, video only. How can I build a relationship with my folks in such a situation? Is it going to work? I was doubtful, as I knew building trust was going to be essential.
2021-06-30
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How to Make Your Teams Beat OKRs
Practically speaking, after the OKR system is introduced to the company, most people have the impression of being on a runaway train. The Q3 goals have barely started and in two months we come to the end. We push goals over the finish line while, in parallel, we are supposed to start preparing the new Q4 objectives. Initiatives seem to have neither beginning nor end.
2021-02-17
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blog
📚 Learn or Die – My Daily Learning Habit to Beat the Sleepers
At work, do you need to be a stronger weightlifter to outdo more senior guys? Not necessarily. The difference lies in learning.
2020-12-08
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blog
Great people are active in self-learning
Top picks of Engineering Management and Leadership
2020-11-15
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blog
How to Excel in Engineering management
Stay focused and invest your time into improvements of a bigger scale. Don’t stay at the level of resolving small daily issues, which results in hundreds of items in your Trello to-do list.
2020-09-29
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Estimates: The Art of Guessing Badly
Oftentimes I hear stakeholders or PMs complaining that the engineering team repeatedly fails to complete their work on time. They would push even harder on deadlines assuming that that would help. In reality, it only creates additional tension that helps no one. They would also try adding artificial buffers, further complicating the problem.
2020-09-15
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Innovation Days: Empowering Employee Creativity for Enhanced Company Operation
Our unique way of supporting our staff to be creative and promoting ideas which go beyond the collective work plan, but which can largely influence the operation of the company or product development itself.
2020-08-21
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How to Build Trust with Engineering Teams
In engineering management, my vision is to create a productive software delivery environment that developers are proud to work in, with a focus on tangible outcomes across the company.
2020-08-10
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blog
What makes a Great Software Company
My humble effort to put the topmost indicators of what defines great software companies in the first place.
2019-08-22
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