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Project management blueprints & insights from the software engineering world.
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Empower your team with knowledge
At “Trust Me I’m An Engineer”, we understand how navigating a team of engineers when you’re not one yourself can pose some challenges. That’s why we’ve put together a collection of “Blueprints” articles to empower you with the knowledge and confidence to navigate tech talk and foster collaboration with your team.
What are Blueprints?
Our Blueprints are a series of articles & workshops by experts to help you and your team decode tech talk, provide insight into engineering processes, and offer practical tips for aligning project timelines and deliverables.
Written by professionals with long-standing experience working with software teams, these articles offer valuable insights and actionable tips that project managers, designers, marketing experts, and other non-engineers on your team will be able to use in their daily work life.
Demystify Technical Jargon
Finally navigate tech conversations so you can provide constructive and realistic feedback to your engineer colleagues.
Align expectations with your team
Reduce frustration by learning effective strategies to align projects timelines and deliverables.
Gain Insight Into Engineering
Gain a deeper understanding of the challenges software engineers are facing in their work to foster better collaboration.
a little bit about
The Author
I’m Pekka Astala, a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience taking on a wide variety of roles in software team projects. My experience ranges from helping plan marketing and growth-hacking campaigns for e-commerce projects to architecting large-scale microservice projects.
I created ”Trust Me I’m an Engineer” because I wanted to use my unique set of skills, experience and knowledge to help project managers, designers, marketing experts, and other professionals working alongside engineers improve their team’s performance and achieve their goals.
