Alex Ponomarev

5 Reasons Engineering Management Misconceptions Exist

What To Expect When You Work For Small Or Large Tech Companies

What You’ll Actually Do As An Engineering Manager

How To Tell CTOs, Project, And Engineering Managers Apart

5 Crucial Ways Engineering Managers Contribute To Projects

How To Give Feedback To Former Teammates As An Engineering Manager

The Car And The Helicopter: Working With Emotions As An Engineering Manager

The Mindset You Need As An Engineering Manager

Engineers Code, Managers Coach (And Other Differences)

6 Harmful Misconceptions About Being An Engineering Manager

Tiny Services, Big Results: Unlocking Velocity with Microservices

Imagine a giant, lumbering city bus trying to drive around narrow, winding roads versus a bunch of zippy little scooters that can navigate tight spots and zoom off quickly in

Trunk-based Development: Continuous Integration Approach for a Mid-sized Develpment Team

Does your team dread release days? Do your customers complain that upgrades break more things than they fix? Is your team burnt out trying to shove disjointed code together before

Outcomes Over Outputs: The PM’s North Star

After an extensive search, you hire your first dedicated product manager, hoping she will take your app to the next level. She impresses everyone with her sheer knowledge of methodology.

The Perils of Reinventing the Wheel

You’ve been assigned to lead development on an important new feature for your company’s mobile app. This customized recommendation engine will be the backbone of a major update

Speaking Two Languages: Bridging Business and Engineering

When you work as a software developer at a small startup, you wear many hats and have many responsibilities. You don’t benefit from having clearly defined product requirements handed

Stay Sharp and Reduce Meetings with Async Communication

Time is extremely scarce. As an engineering manager, you constantly juggle meetings, one-on-ones, planning, reviews, communications, and a myriad of other things. Meetings end up being one of the biggest

Lost in Translation: Decoding New Engineering Team Members

Have you ever been in a situation where you manage someone but don’t know how to evaluate their performance? That’s one of the trickiest problems of being a

Why You May Want to Transition into Engineering Management

As a senior engineer, you likely feel fulfilled in your career. You can choose the projects, teams, and technologies you work on. Your expertise makes you valuable, with recruiters constantly