A manager is a manager is a manager??? When I started at Signavio two years ago I had only had one type of leadership: functional leadership. Or so I thought. In my career I actually never had a subject matter expert as my manager who could also function as a mentor for me. …

In tech, with its exploding salaries, high demand and low supply, the complexity around initial offers and subsequent compensation increases has only gone up over the last few years. How are managers, candidates and people about to go through salary evaluation supposed to see through the thicket? What’s more, every…

I have been working in tech companies for a decade now. When I started my first job I was a clueless humanities/business graduate, with little understanding of what it would actually mean to work in tech. Since then, I have seen the inside of a couple of startups and scaleups…

The hiring budget cuts of 2020 hit tech hard, but not as hard as other industries. While the number of job ads immediately went down, a slight uptick was observable in autumn 2020. And ever since then the numbers are exploding. The challenges that came with the pandemic instigated a…

My experiences from our recent team split Wanna skip the context? Jump right to “kick-off”. The context In 2020, I started at Signavio. With the outline proposed in the planning, our group in Engineering would grow significantly. …

A list of (seemingly) simple measures Oh well, oh well. Here we are. It has finally become necessary: THE article about how to get women in tech — and, more importantly, how to keep them there. I could write lengthy pieces about the kind of frustrations we women go through. I could quote the many exchanges…

March 8, 2021. Yet another International Women’s Day. Women in offices around the world get flowers and are being praised as “strong women”. …

As leaders, we face all kinds of challenges. Whether it’s conflict in our teams, supporting team members or fire fighting on the customer front. We manage. We deal. We will take care of it. That was at least the formula up until 2019… Corona disrupts Boom — in the spring of 2020…

As managers, we often ask ourselves: what can I do better? However, there is the big unknown. Team members, especially those with bad experiences, often shy away from providing feedback to their line manager. Changing the culture on that would be the topic of another article… Without feedback, we risk…