PinnedThoughts of an Evolving Leader — create a common understandingWhen we are building a team, we have different people with different perspectives coming together under a common goal. As a leader, you want your team to form a common understanding instead of just following rules to keep these perspectives alive. I never was a friend of rules. Looking back…Leadership2 min readLeadership2 min read
PinnedThoughts of an evolving leader — The pre-vacation techniqueWho 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. …Work Life Balance3 min readWork Life Balance3 min read
2 days agoOne hard thingIf 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…Development3 min readDevelopment3 min read
Oct 10, 2022Thoughts of an Evolving Leader — About Mentoring and TrustThere 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…Leadership3 min readLeadership3 min read
Sep 26, 2022Thoughts of an evolving leader — sharing is caringWhat 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. …Leadership2 min readLeadership2 min read
Sep 12, 2022Thoughts of an evolving leader — co-leadership or contra-leadershipWhen 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…Leadership3 min readLeadership3 min read
Aug 18, 2022Thoughts of an evolving leader — Let’s negotiateI 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…Leadership2 min readLeadership2 min read
Jul 18, 2022Thoughts of an evolving leader — what I learned from television seriesToday 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…Meetings3 min readMeetings3 min read
Jun 1, 2022Thoughts of an evolving leader — the work-work-balanceThere 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…Leadership5 min readLeadership5 min read
May 21, 2022Thoughts of an evolving leader — successful remote workshopYou 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…Thought Leadership6 min readThought Leadership6 min read