- I want to provide a simple breakdown of what I value most about people in Readify in the hope that most of us agree.
- I want this to read as a either a narrative or as a reference.
- I want to use language that promotes personal ownership.
- I want to use language people can identify with, more human than human resources.
- I want people to be inspired to grow personally just by reading through this.
- I want people to feel like this is achievable.
- I want this to be helpful for personal and team retrospectives.
- I want this to help when recommending people for promotion and recognition.
- I want people to collaborate on this as a living statement, by the people for the people.
We are: Enthusiasm/passion, people-first, Ship It!, Leadership, Reinvest
Each of these sections seeks to describe some defining characteristics about each role and provide some concrete examples along the way.
I am a valuable, enthusiastic and net-positive member of a Readify team.
- I am learning to tame complexity when building software products.
- I am learning how to qualify and reduce technical debt.
- I am learning how to write valuable automated tests.
- I am becoming proficient with my tools and the core building blocks used by our team.
- I am learning how to pull together the LEGO blocks of a product.
- I am learning how to stand up a build and delivery pipeline.
- I am learning, maybe through a variety of ways like reading books, reading code, trying ideas and shipping them.
- I am discussing the things I'm learning about or experimenting on with my teammates, maybe even collaborating on the experience.
- I take my PD seriously and realise it is valuable to both myself and to Readify.
- I reach out to my peers and leadership group to develop my PD plan.
- Other team members genuinely want me on their team.
- I happily take responsibility for what I produce.
- I avoid going dark and I know when to call out for help.
- Even when I disagree with something I continue work enthusiastically and learn from the journey.
- Every venture has mundane tasks, and I work happily and diligently through them.
- I go out of my way develop a friendly and professional rapport with my customer and their team members.
- My contribution to team discussions are net-positive, informative and helpful.
I am a highly sought after member of a Readify team with a proven record of shipping high quality code to production.
- I am proficient with my tools and the core building blocks used by our team.
- I can confidently step outside my comfort zone and adapt quickly to new technologies.
- I am proficient at qualifying and reducing technical debt.
- I am comfortable pulling together the LEGO blocks of a full product.
- I am comfortable standing up an automated integration and delivery pipeline.
- I am comfortable setting technical direction for brown-fields product, reducing technical debt
- I know how to make pragmatic choices in order to ship a product.
- I know when to call out for help and how to do it effectively.
- I am technically persuasive.
- People tend to ask me for my opinion when making technical decisions because I have a proven track record of making wise choices.
- I am fuelling the team's desire to learn, perhaps by mentoring, running brown-bag sessions, sharing useful videos/blogs/papers.
- I am proactively reviewing other people's code so I can understand how best to help the team ship the best!
- I can tactfully challenge and coach people and have them leave richer for the experience.
- I am a confident and proficient teacher of my craft.
- I am a highly sought after team member because I'm a trusted and proactive supporter of my team and its leadership.
- I seek to understand my customer's real needs and am comfortable building requirements and technical recommendations off those.
- I am a "boy scout", I recognise problems early and get in and fix them regardless of who's fault it is.
- I am good at recognising problems outside the scope of my work and eagerly get involved in improving our product, our environment and our processes.
- I happily tackle the most difficult problems the team is facing, usually solving it with an impressive balance of finesse and pragmatism.
- Every venture has mundane tasks but I'm the one that can be trusted to get them done, and get them done right - usually with a handful of ingenuity.
- I adapt quickly to changing requirements and typically structure my approach to cater for this.
- I am devoted to learning, it's become a natural part of my life.
- I am actively introspective and take time to work on my personal and professional development.
- I happily take responsibility my own mistakes and I learn from the mistakes of others.
I am a well-rounded developer, architect, problem solver and leader of people. I represent the unconventional value Readify brings to the market.
I am trusted to lead a small team to ship a full product from idea to production with limited supervision.
- I am maturing as a leader of people.
- I can confidently step outside my comfort zone and adapt quickly to new team situations.
- I am comfortable diving headfirst into moderately risky environments with relatively little upfront information and oversight.
- I am confident making architectural decisions taking concerns like infrastructure, identity management, security, scalability, concurrency and maintainability into consideration.
- I am comfortable with transparently assessing risk, making recommendations, escalating appropriately and dealing with the consequences along the way.
- I am comfortable with building a product vision with a customer based on their business needs, regardless of whether this involves technology or otherwise.
- I am proficient at delivering software projects using agile practices.
- I can confidently and charismatically pitch ideas and influence my team and my customer's decisions.
- I invest in sustainable delivery understanding how to strike the balance between velocity and quality.
- I am typically the first one to take responsibility for reducing waste in our process.
- I am actively involved in the retrospective process and am comfortable challenging and coaching my team.
- I am actively involved in the recruitment process, I get to help choose who I work with!
- I leave my clients with a clear sense of why they have invested in Readify.
- I proactively call out opportunities for Readify with my clients.
- I am mentoring another developer deliberately helping them to round out their skill set.
- I am collaborating with another Senior Consultant so we can learn from each other's experiences.
- I am known as someone who looks for opportunities to invest into the Readify teams in my state.
I am trusted to autonomously lead people through high risk engagements with a proven record of delivering projects from inception to their successful completion.
- I generally inspire people, especially those on mine and my client's teams.
- My influence is starting to reach beyond my team, extending to other teams both inside and outside of Readify.
- People want to go on the journey with me because they know they'll be richer for the experience.
- I am developing strong presentation skills learning to effectively tailor my content and conversation to many audiences.
- I am developing the skill of effective pursuasion and building a track record of taking people on the journey with me.
- I am a servant leader prioritising the needs of my team members above my own.
- I am an outspoken advocate of my team, they can trust me to be the first line of defense.
- I know the buck stops with me, at the end of the day I am responsible for my team and the relationship with our client.
- I am looking for new opportunities with my current client.
- I am keeping in touch with previous clients actively looking for new opportunities.
- I am taking ownership of our retrospective process in our state.
- I am becoming a trusted voice to the Readify Executive and my opinions and ideas seem to carry some weight.
- I am helping steer the public and private conversations within Readify towards positive and productive outcomes.
- I represent the interest of the teams in my State to rest of Readify.
- I am involved in some kind of initiative at the national level in Readify.
I epitomise Readify and represent the pinnacle of our capabilities having influence across many teams and interests both inside and outside of Readify.
- My influence positively affects teams both inside and outside of Readify.
- People both inside and outside of Readify aspire to be like me.
- I inspire people to better themselves by simply being myself and doing what tends to come naturally.
- Pursuasion has become second nature to me, people tend to abandon their previous way of thinking and embrace mine, and are enriched by doing so.
- I am trusted to make strategic technical and business decisions having built a history of positive results.
- I have learned to tailor conversations to any level of business, from training a developer through to C-level executives and business owners.
- People tend to trust me impicitly.
- I am highly approachable, a trusted confidant for my people and my clients.
- I am a good sounding board and proactively broaden the perspective of team leads that I'm working with.
- I wisely manoeuvre through risky political situations and have everyone leave richer for the experience.
- I am especially capable of handling situations where we have made mistakes and have our team and our client keep their dignity intact and be satisfied with the outcome.
- I am a trusted voice to the Readify Executive.
- I conceptualise and drive initiatives at the executive level in Readify and have track record of bringing others along for the journey.
- I recognise that I'm an overhead and the value I bring to the company is different to most billable consultants, and I recognise the importance of that fact.
Putting myself in, well, my own shoes:
- As a person I’d prefer to get insight from someone’s real-life/coal-face experiences in going on the journey with me.
- As a person I’d like insight from someone I’ve worked with and can trust to be both candid and fair.
- As a person I’d like insight that is based in real-life examples rather than guesswork from afar.
- As a person I’d like suggestions or a coaching plan that lead to me growing as an individual.
- As a person I’d like to think that my growth/salary/promotion in Readify is in the sole discretion of a single person.
- As a person I’d like my review to be based on several iterations, like an ongoing conversation, that way I feel like there’s been opportunity to grow and measure my growth.
And again:
- As a leader I’d prefer to provide insights for someone I’ve been working with closely, where I’ve experienced what it’s like going on the journey with them.
- As a leader I’d like this process to be centred around the person’s growth as an individual.
- As a leader I’d like (very much) not to be “milked” for information, but have it collected as a natural by-product of leading a person.
- As a leader I’d like to think that I’m not solely responsible for a person’s growth/salary/promotion in Readify.
- As a leader I’d like to think that decisions for a person’s growth/salary/promotion in Readify are based on an ongoing conversation, not a single instance.
- Consider rating ourselves at the defining characteristics level so it's not too hard to maintain over time
- The examples could be used as a frame of reference for the rating
- Change the terms...
- No brainer: You're great at this! We don't even need to talk about it.
- Maturing: Here's some suggestions, take them or leave them - it's your call.
- It would make sense to record the suggestions.
- Needs coaching: This is an area you're weak in, let's work out a plan and walk this out together.
- It would make sense to record the coaching plan.
- Call special attention to clearly outstanding/exemplary behaviour.
- Outstanding: You simply shine in this area like very few others. I think people deserve to know this about you.