Who does not hate these “last day before vacation” feelings. Your inbox just will not clear out, your calendar keeps getting filled and people suddenly have very urgent last-minute requests. Just 10 more minutes and then I hope the world will not end while I am gone. …

If you’ve been brought up in the software development industry in the past 10 years, you will have heard of the famous quote by Martin Fowler: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. Naming things As a developer you have the responsibility to come up…

There is no bigger approval as a leader, than your employees coming to you for help and mentorship. I am not talking about a weekly or monthly scheduled talk, where you ask, if they need any help or support. I am referring to them openly contacting you, asking for your…

What good can we do as managers and team leads? The transition from individual contributor to leader can be a challenging one. As a former decision maker of the team, people were already depending on me and my work. Now suddenly I switch into a leadership position. …

When I transitioned into my current leadership role, I jumped into a luxurious position: I was not alone. I shared the role with two more people who had more experience than me. So, I was able to learn from them and never really had a feeling of being lost. They…

I got to work. I had to form a decision on the future carreer of one of my employees. As I do not want to just put them into some role they do not like, I left the goal very open, just stating, in the end, we both have a…

Today I want to share something I experienced not only since I became a leader, but something which I got more aware of: Passive onboarding and documentation, or— as the title states — What we could learn from television series. Onboarding is an important topic. With it, a company is…

There is this natural break in the career path of each and every manager/team lead who worked their way up from a non-management position. It goes like this: You do your day-to-day work in your profession. Most probably doing an excellent job, being ambitious and then some day getting the…

You can read it all over the web. We live in a “new” era of remote work which brings remote, online meetings with it. No matter if it’s MS Teams, Zoom or Slack, it was hard getting around these video conference tools in the past years. Back in the beginning…