Leadership insights, thoughts from lived experiences and readings
Communication and Collaboration within a team and across teams is one of the key factor behind projects to succeed or fail. Hence verbal and written communication, cross-functional collaborations are always part of employee performance reviews. A good meeting where I participated with many other colleagues brainstorming and came out with some good decisions are one… Continue reading One-Pager to Facilitate Collaborations
I have been thinking about using blockchain for content ownership verification for some time. I came up with this idea that may be a useful service or a platform if implemented. Let's visit a use case that this platform or service will be able to serve. A user or author decides to create a useful… Continue reading A Platform to Verify Ownership of Content
My Session DetailsDuration: 45 minutesDate: 20th JuneStart Time: 7 AM (Pacific Time),8 PM (BD Time)Conversion Language: Bengali and English (Mixed)๐๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ญ: https://bit.ly/3hFTqMm Abstract Do you know what happens when during the time you charge your credit or debit card and your payments transaction get approved or declined? Who are the parties involved in this whole… Continue reading The Role of Issuer Processors in the Payments Ecosystem
Do you need to understand philosophy to be a great leader? Do you need to have a leadership philosophy of your own? How will you build one if you are not knowledgable on philosophy in the first place? A leadership philosophy is a structured approach to leading others. Leaders often write philosophies as a guiding… Continue reading Leadership and Philosophy
Will Skill Matrix or Skill Will Matrix is a way to assess your employeeโs skill and willingness to do a specific task. Based on that assessment, you can choose how to best manage the employee towards success. An employee will fall into one quadrant or another depending on the task and their skill and will.… Continue reading Will Skill Matrix
AHappyJob, an online portal for job-seekers, recently contacted me to ask a few questions around challenges of leading engineering teams. They published a blog post with my answer about it here - http://blog.ahappyjob.com/the-challenges-of-leading-engineering-teams/ What do you wish engineers understood about the challenges their managers go through? My Answer: When engineering managers are giving relatively high… Continue reading The Challenges of Leading Engineering Teams – AHappyJob Post
A good quote on leadership related to lack of bias for action - "A decision is better than no decision". Something similar we say in chess, "A bad plan is better than no plan".
When it comes to job satisfaction, software engineers score high marks across the industry. I wanted to check what are some of the major components of job satisfaction for you. These may very well be the building blocks to create a job satisfaction index for software engineers. Here is my list in the order I… Continue reading Job Satisfaction Index for Software Engineers
These are some of the topics that a standard backend engineer should know. Here we are consciously excluding any particular tool, framework or programming language. Instead we want to focus on topics related to high level system design and architecture. It can't be an exhaustive list ever. I will try my best to keep adding… Continue reading High Level System Design and Architecture Topics
What about starting the weekend in a light mode? How busy our techies in bay area are in their day to day work? Here is a sample.
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