I’ve just recently enrolled in the Ateneo Graduate School of Business Cebu’s Regis MBA program and set to start class on September 14th. The Regis program is pretty tailor cut for working people like me, taking only two Saturdays a month and running over 2 months for each course. I’m really looking forward to getting…
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.
Employee Retention Is A Terrible Metric
A lot of engineering managers get this as part of their KPIs – employee retention. I’ve definitely had to deal with it at some point in my career and it wasn’t a particularly motivating objective. Don’t get me wrong – I get why this is important to most companies. We spend months or even years…
Effective Meetings 101
Some people love meetings. Most dread them. But one thing for sure, everybody hates a bad meeting. You’ve been there. Those meetings have twenty people in the room, most of whom can hardly even hear each other talk. The meeting extends an hour past the schedule and ends without any definite conclusion. You’re left confused…
Organizing Synacy Guild Week 2019
We recently held our very first Guild Week at Synacy last July 15 to 19. I had the privilege of organizing the event and coming up with the activities that would comprise the week. I considered this one of my first major projects as Engineering Lead and coincidentally quite a first experience for me. Intimidating,…
Half A Year With Harper
Harper just turned 6 months last August 1st. Gen and I joke that we’ve just been “regularized” as parents. I feel it’s actually half true, as much like in a probationary period in employment, we’ve been learning new things every day. So what exactly have I learned since? First, on the matter of empathy, the…
Welcome to TechManagement.Life!
Hi, I’m Derwin Dexter Sy and this is my blog. This is where I write about my thoughts and experiences from my work as a manager in the software and tech industry. First off, I’m really glad you’re here! I started TechManagement.Life soon after I moved into my second and current management job. After 12…