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How software engineers create value
High-impact engineers 10X the value they create by working on the most impactful features for users and aggressively decreasing the time it takes to get…
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James Samuel
How to build a high-performing software team
How do I build a high-performing team? This is one of the common questions leaders ask. No one wants a low-performing team. We all want to build…
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James Samuel
How to get good at giving feedback
Feedback is the breakfast of champions and this is how you prepare it
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James Samuel
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Prioritising effectively and getting work done as managers
Losing control of your time? Here is how to break free from the chaos, prioritise and get stuff done.
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James Samuel
How to empower your team through autonomy, mastery and purpose
Ways to empower engineering teams as engineering lead
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James Samuel
How to be a great team player
The not-so-complicated ways to level up your peers and take your engineering team from good to great.
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James Samuel
3 areas to drive clarity for sustained high-performance in teams
How providing clarity of purpose, direction, plan, roles and boundaries lead to sustained high-performance
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James Samuel
Three Ways to Gain Visibility into Indirectly Managed Teams
How do you have visibility to what matters especially when you manage from 2 or more layers away?
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James Samuel
Using leading indicators to increase iteration velocity and customer satisfaction
This post is sponsored by Bucket. Bucket provides feature flagging with built-in customer feedback to let B2B product teams increase iteration velocity…
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James Samuel
How to onboard into a new job
Starting a new job? This is how to set yourself up for success.
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James Samuel
ML for Game Development, the Trimodal Nature of Software Engineer Salaries, Turning Around Underperforming Software Teams and More
Featured posts from GoogleAI, Uber, LinkedIn, Facebook, Dropbox, Shopify, GetYourGuide, and more
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James Samuel
HubofML #11: Uber’s Real-time Data Intelligence Platform At Scale, Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess And More
This edition features exciting posts from Uber, HelloFresh, GoogleAI, Slack, Postman, LinkedIn, Pinterest and More
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James Samuel
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