When you are in a leadership position of any kind, you are focused on the success of the people you lead. One of the key metrics that should be tracked is the health and happiness of the people you lead. …

I have been self hosting my mail since 2011, over the years I added more data types. The reason I have been self hosting is because I like to own and control my data, and my dislike for sharing my data with Google/Microsoft/Apple and other companies. In this post I…

I have heard this statement from product managers several times in my career. I have a boilerplate response to this: I am sorry, we didn’t get the number of requested bugs as part of the requirements, so we picked a random number. If you wish to define the number of…

Have you ever been asked this question? I guess some of you have. I wonder what is the common answer people typically answer this question regarding a build, a release or a version. I have a standard, boilerplate response: Depends how much you want to pay You see, one can…

We all have a story. The main goal when presenting one is to pass on the essence of the story to your audiences. In order to achieve that, you’d need a few ingredients. They are easy to learn and implement, it only takes attention, and awareness to them. When you…

How often are you responsible for something? quite often I guess. Every time you need to fulfill a task of any kind you are responsible for doing it. It doesn’t matter if you assigned it to yourself, or you have been assigned by someone else. Being responsible mainly means doing…

This week I would like to highlight the importance of measuring metrics. The usual tracking of metrics relies on collecting them and preferably presenting them in a meaningful way. If you don’t collect your metrics periodically and consistently it will be extremely hard to get useful insights from them. The golden four When…

In the late nineteens we had the first war in which Internet Explorer stood against Netscape’s Navigator, and between 2004 and 2017 we had the second war which basically ended up with google taking the entire market with Chrome. The first war gave us JavaScript, very rapid innovation in web…

Each and every one of us has two roles in our professional lives. I like to call them minister of interior and minister of foreign affairs. In the role of being the minister of interior you handle your communication internally, in your team, with your team members. …