One of these may be a reason why your undeserving coworker got a better rating than you — Even after so many studies and research, performance reviews remain one of the most stressful activities for most workers (including the ones in the management role). Even though managers try their best to do unbiased and honest performance reviews, there are still instances when deserving individuals get overlooked for better…

Learnings that can help you succeed faster in the new role — Management is complex and this is the fact that does not change whether you are talking about people management, technology management, product management, or general management. Every manager goes through a journey and it continues as long as they are in this role as no amount of lessons are enough…

and what you should know as well — As per Layoffs.fyi, 629 tech companies had layoffs, and overall 185136 employees were laid off in 2023 at the time of this writing (April 2023). One can argue that layoffs have always been part of the modern corporate world but the surge in mass layoffs as seen in recent times…

And some of the lessons I have learned from them — The Engineering Manager role is a complex one and can differ slightly in each company depending on the experience level and size of the company. However, the engineering manager role is always a mix of several roles, and engineering managers wear different hats at different times of the day, switching…

And a few others where it doesn’t — My journey with cloud infrastructure started with AWS and I have always been amazed by the speed of innovation on this front. We have so many big players in the market (Google, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc) and all of them are trying to outpace each other in terms of innovation…

If the excess of everything is bad, this is no different — Rewards and recognition are considered core aspects of management. Timely recognition of employees who are going above and beyond their day-to-day work always goes a long way in building a desirable work environment. Not enough appreciation is one of the most common complaints in today’s work environment. Companies try hard…

Sometimes it can take years to understand it — We all have complaints about something or the other, whether it is compensation, workload, technology, process, or something else. What happens when you take up a leadership role? Do the problems go away? No, they do not! What changes is only your perspective towards the problems! You acknowledge the problems…

Yes it can, if it is untimely or undeserving — “Joe did a fabulous job on the last assignment, let’s promote him .“ This is a fairly common statement if you ignore the name. However, there is something fundamentally wrong with this statement that is often not clear in many of the technology companies today. In my two decades of…

If you have one, here are some strategies to get rid of it — As per the Scrum guide, there is no mention of the term “Defect Backlog”, it only describes Product Backlog or Sprint Backlog. We still continue to hear about it, especially with companies that have a lot of legacy products. In most companies, there is constant pressure to roll out new…