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Everywhere you look, someone is talking about impostor syndrome. It comes in 2 flavors: permission to not get mocked and destroy my self-worth. Awhile back a competent and successful woman was [...]

A common career question I get is how switch from dev to PM.  When someone asks me this, the first question I ask is: why? More often than not, people are at this phase: Switch to PM ??? Profit! [...]

During my time at Microsoft I worked on various teams. Somehow in over a decade, I managed to time it so that I was there during the transition from waterfall to agile like processes on almost [...]

I didn’t set out to leave Microsoft.  Just like I didn’t set out to join Microsoft, 14 years ago.  But more on that later. Was my whole time at Microsoft wonderful? No.  In fact I [...]