Build a Lean, Cohesive, and Decoupled Team

Context January 2023 was a six-month mark into my new role in the same company. This was a lateral move, Head of Engineering in the Platform team. While the team was smaller in scale, it was more specialised, with higher expertise tech leaders and a more comprehensive range of scope. One of the key takeaways for me was to stay lean and keep our leadership team leaner. In our team, we managed to keep 80% of our people (including our tech leads) hands-on who publish some sort of artefact to the production environment on regular (but varying) frequencies (aka doing what they love and delivering value to their customers)....

December 24, 2023 · 5 min · Amir Mohtasebi
How to provide 360 feedback

360 Feedback

Providing consistent and timely feedback to employees is one of the means for improvement and career growth. Organizations have different ways for employees to provide feedback to each other. In my current organization, providing feedback is one of our main focuses. We regularly talk about our feedback metric in our leadership team more frequently than any other employee engagement metric. What is 360 Feedback? There are different ways to provide feedback, with different frequencies and qualities....

February 11, 2022 · 5 min · Amir Mohtasebi
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