Every once in a while it becomes necessary that we share feedback with our colleagues. This could be because we observed unacceptable behavior, experienced bad project outcomes or simply seen an opportunity for improvement. Most feedback conversations are about constructive feedback, i. e. …

Career development into leadership requires more than just skills progression. 4 things you can invest into to get into leadership. Part I: mentorship! What it can do for your career: 1️⃣ First of all, you need to identify opportunities for mentorship. A new colleague needs to be onboarded and you can show them the…

Why don’t we, as leaders, teach/mentor/coach more at work? Don’t get me wrong — I want to enable my reports to drive and steer on their own. But we accumulate so much knowledge, expertise and experience just to then.. sit on it??? That can’t be right. I get so many…

How do you know what a fair and market-adequate salary is for IT, engineering, data in Germany? 🤔 There are a handful of salary surveys/reports that I strongly recommend. These are ⬇ talent.io & Figures report — kudos to Virgile Raingeard & team ➡ Breaks down numbers by product, engineering and data by seniority for…

One thing in good leadership seems to be a revolutionary thing — at least judging from reactions I get. What is that? Switching from the medical model to the social model in your thinking as a leader. The social model of disability says that disability is caused by the way…

There is a strong lens on women in tech when it comes to developers. How do IT systems analysts, IT consultants and IT salespeople fare in Germany? See map below. The overall number of women in these professions As realized in the previous article, there are 218,600 salaried IT-SA/C/S in Germany according to the Federal Agency for Employment…

They are largely distributed, but still more concentrated than the developers of the nation. All details on the maps below. In previous analyses it became apparent that Germany is a distributed country in the digital landscape. On the whole, large hubs like Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Hamburg dominate. Yet…

I get asked often: how do you develop a leadership toolkit? And what does it contain? Becoming a leader does not mean checking off a checklist. “I do this, then I should be eligible to be promoted” is a clear sign that the person is not yet a leader. Why…

How many computer science students do we have coming out of the unis? And how does that contrast with the developer numbers? The stats for 2021. In previous analyses, I looked at the overall developer numbers for Germany by hubs. See the 2021 analyses here and the 2022 analyses here. Developers vs. computer science students …