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If you want your team out of constant urgent fixes and your work seen by the people who fund the team, I write twice a week about how to do both.

Career

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👷 Course: Design your promotion and get paid at the right number
This is the framework I used for my coaching clients, team and myself. It’s proven and collectively earned hundreds of thousands of dollars to people…
 • Yordan Ivanov
1:12:42
👷 Design Your Promotion: How Erfan Got Over 20%
His manager changed three months before the review, and the first offer was 12%. What got him to 22% was written down.
 • Yordan Ivanov and Erfan Hesami
55:11
👷 Design Your Promotion: Send Your Promotion Case
Five to eight lines, a name on every one of them, and the promises you broke.
 • Yordan Ivanov

Operations

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👷 The 4 Questions That Decide if Your Idea Deserves Your Time
You're afraid. So you say yes to everything that sounds impactful. That's exactly how you end up visible for the wrong reasons.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 How to Finish Early and Satisfy your Stakeholders
This is how I ship projects when they are good enough and move to the next thing faster than other engineers.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 Stop Starting Data Projects
The minimum viable process for turning vague stakeholder requests into shipped, adopted work
 • Yordan Ivanov

Stakeholders

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👷 How to Give Data Engineering Updates That Business People Understand
A decision-first framework for pipeline changes, incidents, and the questions you cannot answer yet.
 • Yordan Ivanov
You Have Two Managers and Neither One Has Seen Half Your Work
A structural reason your stakeholders don't fully trust you yet, and the weekly update that fixed it for me.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 The Weekly Message That Got Me Promoted (And Took 4 Minutes to Write)
Showing your impact and judgement doesn’t need to be a result of big effort.
 • Yordan Ivanov

Leadership

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👷 Your data strategy is a sales job (and you're the salesperson)
Why your sensible plan still get declined, what a Big Tech stack does to your pace, and what goes on the two pages a team of five needs.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 How to Lead a Remote Data Team Effectively
Most people fail working remotely, because it’s very hard, and nobody shows them what good looks like. Let’s change that today.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 How I Apply The 5 SOLID Principles When Building Teams
You already know how to build software, and here’s you you use these skills to build teams.
 • Yordan Ivanov
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👷 Course: Design your promotion and get paid at the right number
This is the framework I used for my coaching clients, team and myself. It’s proven and collectively earned hundreds of thousands of dollars to people…
 • Yordan Ivanov
1:12:42
👷 Design Your Promotion: How Erfan Got Over 20%
His manager changed three months before the review, and the first offer was 12%. What got him to 22% was written down.
 • Yordan Ivanov and Erfan Hesami
55:11
👷 Design Your Promotion: Send Your Promotion Case
Five to eight lines, a name on every one of them, and the promises you broke.
 • Yordan Ivanov
1:01:05
👷 Design Your Promotion: Translate Your Wins Into Business Language
The report got faster, nobody said thank you, and I nearly threw away the best line in my promotion case.
 • Yordan Ivanov
55:25
👷 Design Your Promotion: Pick Your Outcome and Your Number
I am the Head of Data who sings off your 3% increase
 • Yordan Ivanov
59:50
👷 Design Your Promotion: Collect Your Wins Before They Go Cold
The exact rewrite that turns a vague claim into a line a CFO believes.
 • Yordan Ivanov
Design your promotion and get paid at the right number
Update: The course is already running.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 How to Give Data Engineering Updates That Business People Understand
A decision-first framework for pipeline changes, incidents, and the questions you cannot answer yet.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 Your Judgment Is Invisible and That Costs You the Job
The judgment calls and rejected alternatives are the real work, and none of them show up in a dashboard or a repo. Here's how to make them visible.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 What to Do When Your Company Has No Formal Review Process
Lack of a formal review process is a test of your professional maturity
 • Yordan Ivanov
You Have Two Managers and Neither One Has Seen Half Your Work
A structural reason your stakeholders don't fully trust you yet, and the weekly update that fixed it for me.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 The Weekly Message That Got Me Promoted (And Took 4 Minutes to Write)
Showing your impact and judgement doesn’t need to be a result of big effort.
 • Yordan Ivanov

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