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About sujatad

Technical Blogger

Journey as a leader

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 […]

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Coaching Technical Teams

Coaching is a very important part of a manager/leader’s role, as it affects the morale, productivity and long term success of the team. Coaching simply involves, Empowering teams to tackle problems and come up with solutions on their own Encouraging risk taking and learning from their mistakes. Providing skills training and mentoring individuals to develop […]

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Team Goals

Goals built around a common purpose help teams become more cohesive and collaborative. Goal setting can be challenging, both in terms of identifying and then marking progress. I generally start the year, by bringing the team together for a team meeting to, set collective team goals, by first, Reviewing the company goals for the year […]

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Top 4 leadership qualities

A good leader is someone with a vision, who is passionate about that vision and has the courage and commitment to bring that vision to fruition. Here are four characteristics that leaders have, Ability to Inspire A good leader needs to able to get others to see the vision and follow it so the vision […]

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Budgets

Coming up with the appropriate project and team budgets for the upcoming year can be challenging and time consuming. Determining resource needs on new projects can be daunting, particularly if you still have elements of the plan to be worked out. It is hard to anticipate unexpected needs that might arise in the later part […]

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Fun at work

Having some fun at work is important. Even as teams work late nights to make deadlines or try to achieve the different organization and personal goals, it is important that they pause for some rest and relaxation. This builds team camaraderie, reduces stress and ultimately does improve productivity and employee retention. We have had various […]

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Navigation improvements in ReSharper 2018.1

Some improvements in ReSharper 2018.1 Resharper…

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Genetics

Came across some really cool research in genetics, that will help cure several genetic research – Harvard Research

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Management – Listening

One of the most important things one can do as a manager is to listen.  Often in a drive to appear assertive and decisive, one can forget to listen – you are hearing or appearing to hear, but not really listening. If you make a split second judgement on what you hear without really listening […]

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Liveshare

LiveShare allows developers collaborate, with cloning a repository. Live Share allows you to share the context of the code, so you get instant, bidirectional collaboration. Debugging is cool as Microsoft puts it – Collaborative debugging goes further, allowing you and your teammate to independently inspect objects using debugging features like hovers, locals and watches, the […]

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