If it hasn’t been very clear from my other posts, I just want to say it again. I’ve spent a substantial part of my career as, yes, a middle manager. It’s a role that gets a lot of flak and ridicule. It reeks of bureaucracy. To be clear, I’m currently in a flatter organization, which…
Author: Dexter Sy
Dexter is an engineering manager at Synacy, a co-founder of ATeam Business Software Solutions, and founder of TechManagement.Life. He loves to share his experiences and thoughts on managing software teams and running businesses.
A Simple Trick To Beating Procrastination
So I finally figured out how to get myself to do a daily morning run. It’s a simple trick – I just stopped trying to convince myself. I’ve realized laziness is just one of the voices in our heads. It tells us about all the better things we could be doing with our time. It…
Tools and resources now available
TechManagement.Life is all about helping managers and software engineers become better at the work that they do. While it’s been fun writing pieces and hopefully being helpful along the way, I’d love to give you more resources to help you learn more. If you noticed my menu bar, there’s now a Tools and Resources menu…
Do Construction Metaphors Still Work For Software?
It’s common to illustrate the software development process in parallels with how the construction world works. It is a discipline of “engineering” after all, and what’s a better known field of “engineering” than constructing a building or a house. Unfortunately, while a lot of it is helpful to put things into perspective, it also causes…
Appreciating The “Slow Down”
I had a pretty good streak on the site last month. I managed to publish five posts. Yeah, not all that impressive, but that’s one post over my goal of one per week. Not too bad. Immediately thereafter though came a couple of weeks of me not writing anything. It might have been due to…
Five Personal Values I Believe In
Recently, we had a leadership retreat at Synacy and part of the two-day activity was a personal values assessment (PVA) and sharing session. It turned out to be one of the most interesting parts. Aside from the great opportunity to understand each other better, it was also a great chance for us to self-reflect. Values…