Published in Agile Insider·PinnedHelp! My company is run by developers!I’ve been happily working for more than 10 years in the IT industry. Just like how a child accepts the universe around him the way it is, I also accepted many things during my employment as the natural order of how work is done and organized. I did my job…Leadership6 min read
Published in Agile Insider·Jun 12, 2021The tale of two culturesThe collaboration between many locations is not easy. Looking back at my early career I still remember the tension between the German project managers and the Hungarian developers. At the very beginning — as a junior Java backend developer — I was quite naive and inexperienced in these things, I…Leadership6 min read
Published in Agile Insider·Apr 17, 2021This might save your strategic programConsider that you are the leader of a company or at least you are the member of the leadership team. You keep missing the company targets for 2–3 years in a row. The situation is not tragical, you are still profitable, but only profitable enough to keep the business afloat…Technology5 min read
Published in Agile Insider·Apr 11, 2021How freeing up space in your home office frees up space in your mindA bit more than a month ago I started a new experiment. I think I started to reach my lockdown limits and my home office became more like an office home and the atmosphere started to be a little bit suffocating and claustrophobic. …Leadership5 min read
Published in Agile Insider·Mar 21, 2021My speed run on Coursera’s Google Project Management Professional CertificateA few days ago I woke up to a SPAM from Coursera that they launched this super cool Google Certification and they give me a 7 days free trial so that I can check if I wanna make it or I can just cancel my subscription at any time. One…Google10 min read
Published in Agile Insider·Mar 12, 2021How can you be more professional?I had a few talks with colleagues and friends in the recent weeks about our careers and how we can grow as professionals and the more I thought about these talks, the more I looked back at my own career and my previous articles — especially the last one— it…Management4 min read
Published in Agile Insider·Feb 27, 2021This is how you limit your own career opportunitiesIn the recent months I started to see more and more how smart and talented people struggle to move forward in their careers, they struggle to get the respect and salary they deserve. They are hard working, they have clear goals, yet they can’t make it. If they have the…Management5 min read
Published in Agile Insider·Feb 17, 2021I felt like working in the office again and it was even betterDespite of spending half of my life alone in a small room with a computer, it seems that I’ve reached my limits too. It was almost exactly a year ago when I last worked in the office and at the beginning of December I also started to experience the lockdown-fatigue…Management3 min read
Published in Agile Insider·Feb 8, 2021Why do we hurt people at work?There are many things which have been considered as taboo and weakness at larger companies, saying sorry is one of them. …Leadership5 min read
Published in Agile Insider·Feb 1, 2021Full centralization is not the answerWhen a company announces a merge or cost cutting program, it usually means that they try to find redundancies in the organization and eliminate them. They merge departments, standardize templates and procedures and they define a new hierarchy. …Leadership7 min read
