Respects and participates in processes, giving meaningful feedback to help the organization improve

• Reflects on meetings that leave them inspired or frustrated

• Teaches others about existing processes

• Actively participates and makes contributions within organizational processes

• E.g. Facilitated effective tactical meeting with empathy

• E.g. Explained tactical meeting format to a new hire

• E.g. Provided feedback on sprint planning meeting

Identifies opportunities to improve existing processes and makes changes that positively affect the local team

• Defines meeting structure and cadence that meets team needs

• Engages in organizational systems thinking

• Advocates for improved diversity and inclusion, and proposes ideas to help

• E.g. Defined Frankenmeeting structure for small team

• E.g. Improved Watch on-call rotation scheduling

• E.g. Defined standard channels for inter-team communication

Develops processes to solve ongoing organizational problems

• Creates programs that meaningfully improve organizational diversity

• Solves long-standing organizational problems

• Reallocates resources to meet organizational needs

• E.g. Developed baseline team templates for consistency

• E.g. Created bug-rotation program to address ongoing quality issues

• E.g. Defined Guilds manifesto and charter

Thinks deeply about organizational issues and identifies hidden dynamics that contribute to them

• Evaluates incentive structures and their effect on execution

• Analyzes existing processes for bias and shortfall

• Ties abstract concerns to concrete organizational actions or norms

• E.g. Connected mobile recruiting difficulties to focus on excellence

• E.g. Raised leadership level change discrepancies

• E.g. Analyzed the hiring rubric for false negative potential

Leads initiatives to address issues stemming from hidden dynamics and company norms

• Builds programs to train leadership in desired skills

• Creates new structures that provide unique growth opportunities

• Leads planning and communication for reorgs

• E.g. Lead efforts to increase number of mobile engineers"

• E.g. Directed resources to meaningfully improve diversity at all levels

• E.g. Built the growth framework rubric