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10x your feedback game: Choose kindness over niceness


What if I told you there was a way to overcome that sinking feeling associated with delivering feedback? Yes! You can learn to deliver great feedback with deliberate practice. Read on to learn some useful techniques.

AbdulFattaah Popoola Leadership, management Leave a comment February 6, 2023February 5, 2023 8 Minutes

Book Review: Slack, Getting past burnout, busywork, and the myth of total efficiency


Leaders (managers, directors, VPs, etc.) should read this book if they want to create teams that execute predictably; the book also covers culture and other subtle elements that make teams work efficiently.

AbdulFattaah Popoola Leadership, management Leave a comment September 13, 2022January 17, 2023 14 Minutes

Defense-in-depth: a strategy for leading understaffed teams


Leading an underfunded team is a challenge most managers will face over their careers. This blog post provides techniques and a framework for delivering impact under such conditions.

AbdulFattaah Popoola Leadership, management Leave a comment August 25, 2022January 17, 2023 5 Minutes

3 quick tips for leading through uncertain times


This post offers three tips for leading teams going through a difficult period. It could be attrition, product changes, reorgs, uncertainty, etc. It is a playbook of 3 key things to keep in mind and includes a FAQ list of likely questions.

AbdulFattaah Popoola Leadership Leave a comment June 13, 2022February 3, 2023 7 Minutes

Four mistakes I made as a new manager


This article relates hard-learned lessons as a newbie engineering manager. It targets new leads by clarifying leadership pitfalls to avoid.

AbdulFattaah Popoola Leadership Leave a comment May 3, 2022January 16, 2023 6 Minutes

When sleeping dogs bite: Unmaintained systems breed disasters


The issue with systems that do not 'fail' is that they have no fixes when they eventually fail.

AbdulFattaah Popoola Best Practices, Software Development Leave a comment March 8, 2022February 3, 2023 5 Minutes

Leading through difficult times: Put on your oxygen mask first 


The story of the most challenging stretch of my career so far and how I acquired years of leadership experience within months.

AbdulFattaah Popoola Leadership 2 Comments November 8, 2021February 3, 2023 6 Minutes

From Chaos to Comfort: Transforming business output by eliminating pain


This post describes leading a team through a tough turbulent transition while handling hypergrowth and business pivots. It details the focus on high leverage activities to break the loop of never-ending toilsome tasks and reactive fires.

AbdulFattaah Popoola Leadership Leave a comment August 16, 2021September 9, 2022 4 Minutes

How to rapidly onboard new teams: Part II


This post focuses on steps to take during the first 3 months of forming a new team. It is the second post in the "How to onboard teams" series which covers lessons and techniques acquired from ramping up many teams. 

AbdulFattaah Popoola Leadership, Software Development Leave a comment March 23, 2021October 17, 2021 5 Minutes

How to run better stand-ups


There is a high chance that you attend or have attended an inefficiently-run stand-up. I have seen various stand-up styles over the years. Sadly, most of the roughly 2000 stand-ups I attended were unproductive. Mildly put, most were status reports for some manager or higher up.

AbdulFattaah Popoola Best Practices, Musings, Software Development 2 Comments February 1, 2021August 9, 2021 9 Minutes

What values do great leaders encourage?


I have had several managers across several teams and projects. This has exposed me to various management styles and taught me what to emulate and what to avoid. There are no silver bullets when it comes to leadership however these are a few things I appreciate.

AbdulFattaah Popoola Leadership Leave a comment February 24, 2020October 9, 2021 3 Minutes

High Output Management: Chapter 2 Review


A summary of chapter 2 of high output management

AbdulFattaah Popoola Leadership Leave a comment August 26, 2019August 12, 2021 2 Minutes

Leading teams: Stop giving answers


Stop giving people answers all the time!

AbdulFattaah Popoola Leadership Leave a comment July 22, 2019October 24, 2021 1 Minute

Five challenges of engineering teams


5 important ideas that engineering teams need to keep in mind to optimize value delivery.

AbdulFattaah Popoola Best Practices, Musings, Software Development Leave a comment January 28, 2019October 9, 2021 5 Minutes

Kind Leadership: Influence over Authority


One of the most underrated parts of working at any job is interacting with people. It is amazing how much humans achieve via collaboration and also how fast relationships can degenerate.

AbdulFattaah Popoola Career 2 Comments August 27, 2018October 9, 2021 7 Minutes

What you should do before you start reforms


What do you do when you run into code that apparently serves no purpose? Do you immediately expunge the code? Also, what do you do if you have to follow some organizational process that appears to make no sense? Do you just eliminate the process?

AbdulFattaah Popoola Career, Musings 4 Comments July 9, 2018October 9, 2021 3 Minutes

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