Category: Management
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Stop being the Oracle for your team!
There is a clear expectation today that leaders should be enablers, which is great as it makes the leadership model more participative. However, it’s all too easy for new leaders to end up assuming the role of the single source of truth for their teams. Let’s try to understand the reasons behind this. Regardless of…
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Your Product Manager is not the enemy
One of my earliest memories when I started working with product teams was the underlying feeling within my team that the Product Manager was actually working against us. In countless meetings, I had to hear complaints that things were not straightforward, and that the product team didn’t understand anything. In hindsight, I see that this…
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Quiet Quitting does not exist
The term “quiet quitting” has been used as an umbrella term for a series of measures that workers have been taking to adjust their workload and scope of work to their current remuneration or position. The thing is, in a capitalist society, quiet quitting doesn’t exist! Story time! My family wasn’t necessarily poor when I…
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Stop! Don’t become a manager
If you’ve been working in the technology field for some time, you may have witnessed it happening, either in your own team or elsewhere: higher management decides that the team needs a manager, they choose the best engineer from the team, and after a while, that person proves to be a bad manager, either because…
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Seniority takes time!
In the last 5 years, we’ve seen the discussion around seniority within the technology bubble take on a much larger proportion than it should have, and this discussion is largely due to people not understanding what a senior IT professional really does in their area. In the distant past, seniority was attributed to how long…
Thoughts from Phil 