I would like to thank Rajesh who is a Principle Development Manager at Microsoft for providing the content for this entry. He poses a great question and scenario that I'm sure quite a few TechLeaders deal with on a daily basis. There is a soft skills...

It more than obvious that our economy is in trouble and hopefully will we see an upswing in the second half of the year. Unfortunately, many of you have had to be the bearer of bad news and let employees go, or you have been let go yourself. This weakened...

Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) are definitely very aligned. In fact, if you walked in on a team doing one of these processes you might have hard time quickly deciding whether you had walked in on a Scrum team or an XP team. The differences are often...

Does your project and leadership fail due these process mistakes? How do you combat these? What do you feel the #1 reason for failed projects is? (Which might come back to you, the manager, since you were leading the charge) Overly optimistic...

While doing content research for TechLeaders I came across an interesting list that describes some of the people-related classic mistakes in the software industry. The article was broken down into people, process, product and technology. Over the next...

Empower and Grow individuals! I am very passionate about this. I fully believe that everything else I am responsible for takes a back seat to making sure the people on my team can be successful and move forward in their careers. That those individuals...

This is the last installment of our 5 part series on managing remote employees. Managing remote employees is not easy and just like being a remote employee it is not meant for everyone. Hopefully through this series you have been able to take away some...

Goal: Establish strong relationships to fuel motivation, collaboration, and productivity. Recent research from the Gallup Organization’s Tom Rath shows that people with strong friendships at work are more motivated, loyal, collaborative, and productive...

Happy New Year and welcome back from the holidays. We are going to pick up from where we left off and discuss tactics and advice for managing remote employees. Communication is extremely important when working on a team and having remotes makes it that...