Improve your team's SPACE metrics with servant leadership, mentoring, reporting, roadmapping, documentation, and more.

You can benefit from over 5 years experience in management, 10 years in leadership, and 15 years in software contributing engineering, design, and growth.

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"Brandon is an incredible manager who always supported me, provided a space to share what is on my mind, and has been a great mentor."

Focus

Focus conversations using a bias for action, build decisions, and keep things moving

Guide

Guide teams through goal setting, OKRs, roadmaps, kickoffs, check-ins, 1-on-1s, and retrospectives.

Align

Align on process & create reports, templates, checklists, flows, and surveys.

Key values and principles

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Managers should help you be happy, healthy, and satisfied with your career

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Employee Well-being and Satisfaction

  • Listen
  • Create safe spaces
  • Encourage healthy practices
  • Prevent burnout, alleviate symptoms, and mitigate damage
  • Enable rest and recuperation

Team Building and Communication

  • Set you up for success
  • Build satisfaction
  • Foster good communication
  • Cultivate strong teams
  • Nurture careers
  • Empower others

Professional Development

  • Support career advancement
  • Develop feedback mechanisms
  • Enable learning and professional development
  • Coach goals and clearly communicate expectations
  • Mentor juniors on their journey to become leads by building their project management, teamwork, and communication skills
  • Share advanced techniques and best practices
  • Run cross-functional workshops to share knowledge across unfamiliar disciplines

Project Management and Execution

  • Facilitate productivity and remove barriers
  • Delegate and provide resources
  • Improve project intake quality with issue templates
  • Implement feedback mechanisms such as design reviews and code reviews
  • Build QA approval checklists
  • Developed shared definitions of done and built consensus for target devices and audiences
  • Ensure sufficient data gathering to enable metric-driven goal setting
  • Create processes to facilitate SaaS growth

Resources

Project management best practices

There is always more to do and we can't get it all done. We should be selective. A light backlog is a happy backlog.

How to motivate people

Everyone is motiviated by different things. Get to know your team.

Communication preferences

The purpose of this survey is to discover communication preferences so we can communicate comfortably.

How to write issue templates

The 5 Ws are a basic tenet in information gathering and problem solving. Who, what, when, where, why, and sometimes how.

Project request template

Help us build the business case.

Building the case for promotion

Sometimes you need to present a record of work for committees who aren't familiar with it.

Tools I've used

About Brandon

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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

  • Let's document things! Documentation benefits everyone.
  • I operate in a judgement-free zone.
  • The phrase "intent vs impact" is of high importance to me.
  • I prefer a direct approach, but I understand that others might prefer different approaches.