# Ariel Shmerling's Manager Readme

**Software Development Manager at Philips Healthcare**

# Ariel Shmerling Readme

Sharing my managerial philosophy might help you to better understand me for better working together.

# My role

My job is primarily to build a strong team and lead it to create outstanding products.  
My team and I are success oriented. We focus on target goals, work hard to achieve it and get it done.  
I never forget to celebrate our success and recognize our achievements.  
As a team, we grow together, promote trust and help each other every day in an atmosphere and culture that keep everyone coming to work with a smile.

I drive best practices and software excellence activities to keep the code clean.

My role is to unleash my team members' potential to delight our customers with innovation.

# What do I value most?

I value honest people.

While challenging me makes me stronger, I prefer that you come up with your own solutions to your conflicts which will make you stronger. 

I appreciate strong learning capabilities, great communication skills, and team spirit.  
  
I value brilliant engineering solutions along with high standards that lead to solid results.

# My Expectations

I expect you to love what you are doing, be passionate about software, but also an excellent collaborator.

You can approach me anytime in any way based on the urgency.

Don't make excuses when you fail. Instead, tell me what you have learned.

**"Done" ** means any customer can use it safely, effectively and robustly. no further testing is required.

I expect you to be professional. Always learn, investigate and improve. Use the necessary means to build a sustainable design. Respect other opinions and always test your code.

Be creative. Be innovative. Be resilient.

# 1:1s

This is the time in a week you have my full attention and focus to discuss anything you want.  
Generally, I conduct the meetings in the following structure:

I usually:

1. Share Organization news
2. Talk about Team news, my vision, and status
3. Provide feedback about your recent activities

and you:

1. Share your feedback  
2. Suggest continuous improvement ideas
3. Raise your questions, concerns, opinions, open issues

# Personality quirks

Don't tell me that unit tests are a waste of time

Please don't eat tuna fish near me.