Recently, I had a small debate with other leaders on the impact of communication and its role across the team. We debated that repeating …
Product Engineering Strategy
An engineering strategy goes beyond your OKRs (if that's what you use for goal setting). It goes into where you want the organization to be …
Scaling Innovation
It's been a long time since I sat down to write out my thoughts. Over the past couple of years, I've been working on my MBA. I successfully …
Embrace Your Inner Engineer
When I first started at Traveloka, I realised that there are some good engineering practices, but other practices could be improved. It's …
Roundtable: What makes a great Engineer?
Recently I had a roundtable discussion with my engineers on what makes a great engineer. What are the traits that you would like to see in …
Leading in Uncertain Times
Unfortunately, the world has gone a bit upside down over the last few months. We've seen countless layoffs across many different industries …
1:1s – Don’t Follow my Advice
Last year, I wrote a post after about 6 months being a manager of a rather large team (two pizzas would definitely not be enough to feed …
6 Things to do when training Engineers to be Managers
I was recently given the opportunity to train an engineer in my team to take over my role. This engineer volunteered to become a people …
1:1s – Questions
When I started my 1:1s a few months ago, I kept asking the same questions over and over. In fact, I found that I wasn't really learning …