Get 10x more from your engineering organization

Hi,

I am Shani Raba, my mission is to help you unleash the power of your engineering team. Together we can build a team that moves much faster toward healthy, successful & disruptive business.

Here is what I am doing:

  • Help founders build tech&product roadmap and get started

  • Help CEOs define, interview & hire executives

  • Coaching & Challenging CTOs and VPs, to reach their next level

  • Optimizing existing processes using Agile & Lean methodologies

  • Building career growth ladder

  • Accelerating product & engineering throughput by focusing on become high performing team and continuously delivering organization

  • Leadership-focused sessions on cultivating a culture of collaboration, innovation & continuous learning

The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

— Elon Musk

Consulting Services

 

Strategic Thinking Sessions

Leadership-focused sessions to explore together the company challenges, learn from top industry companies similar to your business and build together frameworks and tools to accelerate growth and learning

Leadership Coaching

For you as a leader, or to your product and engineering leadership, helping you identify your strength and improve your weaknesses, gives you practical tools to improve your day to day leadership.

Interim CTO

You don’t have a CTO yet? or you have one that needs someone to partner and work together to overcome the high load or inexperience in specific areas?

Let’s work together…

Want to try one of the programs? want to learn more or ask questions?
I am just an email away

“Hire someone who has done the exact task you need completed for another company, ideally at a slightly larger scale.”

— Andrew Wilkinson

Blog Posts

 

What playing FIFA taught me about building teams

As a kid, I spent hours playing every competitive game both on the field and the digital space such as PlayStation or Atari. The special part in every competitive e-sport game is that you are constantly learning, what you are doing right and what you should improve. One of those games that I enjoyed the most is playing FIFA Manager which helped me to shape my point of view on team building as well.
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Good engineering manager vs Bad engineering manager

Inspired by the great book by Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and specifically by this post about good product manager/bad product manager, I felt the urge to re-write it — but this time about engineering managers. From my experience of leading, mentoring and growing dozens of engineering managers I believe there is a huge difference between good engineering managers and bad engineering managers. It might seem very small for some, but in reality only the former can actually build 10x engineering teams.
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My Beliefs for New Employees — Deliver Value in Your First Week at Work

In order to cultivate a culture of growth, be able to maintain the velocity while bringing in more talent quickly. You need to have a good balance between new employees’ confidence and their outcome/value. You need to find ways to push them out of their comfort zone as soon as possible. Others might call it “throwing them in at the deep end” - there is a thin line between the two.
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