Author Archives: sujatad

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Delegating

Posted on May 29, 2022 by sujatad

Successful leaders delegate well.

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I came across an interesting suggestion online regarding determining company and team culture, an exercise that one can ask a team to do. I tried this at my team meeting – went around the room asking everyone – ‘what 3 words would you use to describe the team?’. That gave us a look at the […]

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What is DevOps?

Posted on July 7, 2020 by sujatad

I came across this great definition of what DevOps is from the folks at Amazon – DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure […]

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Recruiting

Posted on June 13, 2020 by sujatad

How do you determine the right candidate fit during recruiting? Ask additional questions that center around topics such as, Your company and the culture around it. Describe the position and expectations of the role and then ask questions around it. Focus also on any constraints such as working with older technologies. Have the candidate actively […]

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Information Security

Posted on June 13, 2020 by sujatad

Information security helps protect an enterprise from threats and avoid customer data compromise. Every organization needs to have its security posture well defined, monitored and audited. The security posture has to keep up with threats emerging every day. I was asked to lead an initiative on Security in our organization – to review, recommend and […]

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5 Levels of Leadership

Posted on May 31, 2020 by sujatad

I came across a great article and followed up by listening on Utube to John C. Maxwell about the 5 levels of leadership. Really, liked all he has to say on this topic.

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Build Conference 2020

Posted on May 25, 2020 by sujatad

I was reading about the 2020 Build Conference which for the first time was completely virtual. Can read more the details here…

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Switching to working virtually…

Posted on May 23, 2020 by sujatad

It’s been about a month and half nearly two months now of working completely virtual and staying away from the office due to Covid19. There were some initial bumps, such as, dropped vpn connections or capacity overload home wifi connectivity issues missing having two monitors issues with team collaboration tools missed meeting by team members […]

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Leading in troubled times

Posted on March 25, 2020 by sujatad

March 2020 will be a time in our history that we will remember for ever. Almost overnight we went from a time of economic prosperity and freedom of movement to one where businesses were quickly shuttered and we were severely restricted in our movements. Masks and social distancing became part of our daily life. Working […]

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Journey as a leader

Posted on August 3, 2019 by sujatad

I began my journey in leadership a number of years ago, starting with managing small projects and teams and slowly taking on larger more challenging projects and teams. Along the way, I took a number of management and leadership courses, read a lot of books, blogs, biographies, watched a lot of TED talks, attended conferences […]