As an engineering manager it is our job to motivate our employees so that they can succeed at their tasks. Often we approach this challenge from the perspective of finding new ways to motivate and excite our employees. While this is beneficial we often forget to look at the items that hurt or destroy the motivation within our teams.

As an effective engineering manager there are several different roles that you must learn how to play. Each one addresses a specific need that your employees or team has. It is crucial to understand each one and when each role should be employed.

There are several direct benefits of outsourced virtual teams. Because they are global in nature, you can take advantage of high degrees of expertise while paying much less than the prevailing wage.

All engineers, regardless of their current level, need to improve their core skill sets to progress in their career. These are not tasks per say - but rather specific skills and attributes that engineers work on developing over a period of time.

When you are running a production based mobile product, it can be difficult to identify and define meaningful long term technical improvements. Even more difficult is successfully implementing a plan to achieve success on the defined tasks.

Often when we do present an issue, the management team returns and can be frustrated about the issue being raised. This article will hope to address how to properly raise an issue to the management team so that frustrations can be avoided.

One of the hardest parts of running an effective meeting is successfully reaching a conclusion to that meeting’s agenda. In this article we want to share several different approaches to reaching a conclusion, along with showing their strengths and weaknesses.

Here is the scenario, You go to a tech company for an interview and get every single one of their questions correct. Yet you do not land the job. Why not?

Employees at all levels of the company need to set an progress against various business goals. These goals have a very different background depending on the level of the employee.

Let's face it. As an engineer we can create freaking awesome stuff - but do we have the business chops to back up our creations? During this post I want to explore 3 critical business skills that I believe every engineer should master.