Namrata Pal

1. Prioritize effectively based on the 4 quadrant rule - Urgent and Important, Urgent but not Important, Not urgent but important, Not urgent and not important. 2. Have pre-decided to-do lists for the day based on priorities and you can add / move items in the to-do list if new work comes up during the day. 3. Don't overwork. It will lead to burnout and hamper productivity / efficiency. Be okay with not being able to complete a few tasks and try to work for not more than 8-9 hours in a day. If you need to be part of many meetings, just have your pointers ready for meetings and do the actual work only during fixed hours. Don't feel compelled to do everything right away. 4. Delegate work to juniors / ask for guidance from supervisors.

1. Have a close group of people to discuss things with and consider their opinions while making strategic decisions. Ideally, the group should have people either from diverse backgrounds or there should at least be a few strong leaders in the group. 2. Cultivating relationships with people from diverse backgrounds in your personal life will help in understanding diverse perspectives and building your own diverse skillset.

1. Provide advice on how a specific problem needs to be tackled rather than hand-holding and solving everyone's problems yourself. People only grow and make progress when they are able to tackle problems independently and their own problem solving skills develop sufficiently. 2. Show trust for your team to perform independently. 3. Communicate goals / future growth path / feedback as transparently and as effectively as possible during 1:1 conversations. 4. Schedule regular 1:1 conversations (monthly). 5. Schedule regular team catchups like daily scrum / monthly team building activity for team to stay connected / know each others' work / bond. 6. Encourage innovation / thinking out of the box with quarterly hackathons / similar events.

Empathy and sharing personal anecdotes / experiences helps in communicating bad news professionally without compromising on compassion. Providing advice on future path / advice on further actions the person can take should also be given.

Most skillsets are acquired by perseverance and hard work. Everyone is born equal, but some people are better at certain things than others because they have acquired the skillset either due to their immediate environment Or by sheer perseverance and hard work. Show perseverance and resilience during difficult times. That's how you can have a positive mindset and learn / achieve anything and everything.

1. Upgrade the version on a testing environment / testing stack and run unit tests / integration tests. 2. Brainstorm for edge cases if any, which might have been missed in unit tests / integration tests. 3. Upgrade 1 node of the database in production (applicable when you have a cluster of nodes) and route 1 - 10% of production traffic to that node. (refer Canary testing) 4. Monitor logs and alerts after above step. 5. If no issues are observed, upgrade another node to new version (depends on traffic volume how many nodes you want to upgrade for testing) and route 50% of traffic to upgraded nodes. Monitor logs and alerts. 6. If no issues in above steps, upgrade all nodes to new version.