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Engineering leadership notes: 1:1s, communities of practice, hiring, delivery, career pivots. Written from 3,000+ mentoring sessions since 2019.
From -$75k to +$500k Venture in 3 Years: Live Business Lessons, Raw Numbers
My engineering leadership business hit $537k revenue in 2025, growing from $0 to half a million in 3 years.
How I Grew a $200k Mentoring Business from Scratch
I turned a 6-month mentoring test into 161+ mentees, 1000+ sessions, and a $200k/year mentoring business. 10 no-BS steps to start and scale.
11 Red Flags It’s Time to Fire Your Consultant
Too many consultants linger without results. Spot the 11 red flags that signal it’s time to fire your consultant, end dependency, and reclaim control.
How I Built Leadership Courses That Actually Works
Most leadership courses overpromise and underdeliver. Here’s how I built a practical, results-driven program that truly transforms leaders at scale.
10x Your Market Value: The Tech Leader’s 8-Step Playbook
Learn how to 10x your market value as a tech leader with 8 proven steps to boost your impact and become an irreplaceable asset in any company.
ELC 2025: A Tech Leadership Revolution in Central Europe
ELC 2025 brought 300+ tech leaders to Prague to reshape engineering leadership in Central Europe. Here's what made it a turning point and what's next.
10 Questions to Find the Right Engineering Management Role
Feeling stuck or burned out? Use these 10 questions to realign your engineering management role and find a path that truly fits your goals and strengths.
6 proven strategies to hit a 90% candidate conversion rate and build a top startup team
Boost your candidate conversion rate to 90%+ with these 6 proven hiring strategies. Learn how to attract, engage, and secure top engineering talent.
Fire, fix, or invest? The 3 performance criteria every leader needs.
Fire or invest? Learn 3 key criteria for tough performance decisions before it's too late. Avoid common mistakes and take action to protect your team.
Time to fire your Scrum Master? 10 questions to expose whether your Agile is actually delivering value.
Discover how continuous improvement, value flow, and strategic alignment can transform your Agile practices and lead your teams to real results.
Stop leading in isolation: build a community of practice for engineering managers
Bi-weekly rituals, 6 discussion areas, the tiger-team model, and the exact tools to run a CoP that actually changes how EMs work. Real playbook, not theory.
Learn or die: 11 steps to transform your ‘learning culture’ from buzzword to reality
Without a real learning culture, your top talent will leave. This guide shows you how to build high-performing teams that thrive through continuous learning.
CTO exit strategy: 10 proven steps to successfully complete your mission and secure your next role
My CTO exit strategy is grounded in years of experience working with some of the largest software companies in the Czech Republic and mentoring engineering
30–60–90-day guide to leading your new dev team like a pro
“In three months, I’ll embrace the new dev team, complete an internal audit, and present my battle plan.”
Creating the perfect compensation model for your software development team
Every CTO has faced the challenge: “What’s the best compensation model for my R&D team?” With so many options, it can feel overwhelming.
Loving My New Porsche? A Provocative Review of Year Three on My $300k Rollercoaster Business.
Exposing My 2024 Financial Data, Streams, Reviews, and Plans.
Why isn't my manager listening to me? Mastering six levels of influence to push your ideas.
Don't just bring up problems. Tell the managers what they get in return.
Earn Six Figures in 6 Months: Your Guide to Landing 30+ Clients and Growing Your Business
Currently, I’m guiding two extra mentees with a different mission: They want to follow my path as a solopreneur.
11 Keys to Mastering Performance Reviews: The Good, The Bad, The Successful Elements of Career Frameworks
Have you ever thought about conducting performance reviews that your team actually loves? You have the power to establish a system that brings value to bot…
Hiring A Software Engineering Manager? 10 Interview Questions to Help You Make the Right Bet.
How do I onboard an Engineering/Tech Manager ace ♣️ in just 3 months? Do this: 1️⃣ Decide how much of Technical/Delivery, Leadership and Process scope you…
Want to get promoted? The software developer’s secret weapon for advancing in your career.
Developers think about technical skills when they want a career promotion. But managers care equally about a broader set of qualities.
Engineering Manager Team Leader Training Course - Part One - Foundation
Engineering Manager Course: Confidently lead engineering teams that ship and scale using techniques and lessons acquired through real-world experience.
My 2024 Solopreneur Strategy: 5 Key Objectives to Outperform as a Fractional Advisor and Coach in the Tech Industry
No strategy → no focus → no improvements → no differentiators → no happiness in what I do → back to employee mode.
Don't Do DORA Metrics First: Rethinking Team Performance Indicators
What's the purpose of having expensive highly performing teams if they don't work on things that matter the most, having 60% off-roadmap contribution?
How my unconventional solopreneur strategy and tips put me in an unbeatable spot
A well-crafted battle plan is your strategic compass when navigating the competitive landscape of client engagement.
How to Succeed as a Consultant on a Client's Site: 10 Steps to Dominate.
Becoming a Successful Consultant: It's Not Guesswork, It's a Solid Battle Plan.
From VPE to solo mentor: 317 billed sessions in year one
The full story of leaving a €230k VPE seat to build a mentoring venture. Y1 numbers, the strategy that worked, and the mistakes I made.
Is there a better way to do 1:1s? Let's find out.
The 60-min slot, the 4-session foundation to build trust, the core agenda, and the async pattern. The full playbook I use with every new mentee running 1:1s.
What a Staff Engineer role is all about?
Are you grappling with uncertainty when it comes to introducing a Staff Engineer role within your organization? Do you wonder about their work’s scope and…
9 Solid Tips To Grow Your Team’s Talent in a Year
“I have no time to grow my teammates. We have to deliver … I can’t keep up with the pace anymore.” ?
VP of Engineering @ Mews - A look back on my 1st year
Life is fun! Joining a new company in April 2020 couldn’t have been easier: The Prague HQ office got closed due to the virus whose name we shall not mentio…
How to Make Your Teams Beat OKRs
How to Make Your Teams Beat OKRs - OKRs for engineering teams
Learn or Die - My Daily Learning Habit to Beat the Sleepers
At work, do you need to be a stronger weightlifter to outdo more senior guys? Not necessarily. The difference lies in learning.
Great people are active in self-learning
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How to Excel in Engineering management
Stay focused and invest your time into improvements of a bigger scale. Don’t stay at the level of resolving small daily issues, which results in hundreds o…
Estimates: The Art of Guessing Badly
Oftentimes I hear stakeholders or PMs complaining that the engineering team repeatedly fails to complete their work on time.
Innovation Days: Empowering Employee Creativity for Enhanced Company Operation
Our unique way of supporting our staff to be creative and promoting ideas which go beyond the collective work plan, but which can largely influence the ope…
How to Build Trust with Engineering Teams
In engineering management, my vision is to create a productive software delivery environment that developers are proud to work in, with a focus on tangible…
What makes a Great Software Company
My humble effort to put the topmost indicators of what defines great software companies in the first place.