Songkick's Ability: Leadership

– Problem solving
– Leading by example
– Instigating change
– Growing teams
– Understanding what drives people
– Developing processes

Able to identify and communicate problems with the product team and process.

Example behaviours:

• Raised a concern about inefficient standups at the retro
• Facilitated a product team retrospective

Able to identify problems with the product team and process, and investigate potential causes. Occasionally takes a lead in product team processes.

Example behaviours:

• Led a feature kick-off
• Suggested a new standup format
• Taken an active role in helping a product team to define their process

Able to identify problems with the product team and process, investigate potential causes, and propose solutions/ next steps.
Able to proactively inform the right people of the change.
Able to identify product team and process areas that require ownership/ improvement.
Able to make sure the fixes are prioritised and completed

Example behaviours:

• Started and ran SEO council
• Lead on a large process change within the engineering team and effectively communicated that change to the company
  • Implemented a new bug-tracking process and communicated this change to the company
  • Supported a process change within the engineering team and communicated this change to the company e.g code reviews

Able to identify problems with the product team and process, and encourage developers to own investigations and proposals for fixes.
Able to support and lead technical direction in a product team.

Potentially manages members of the Technology team.
Potentially grows the Technology team.

Example behaviours:

• Regularly runs kick-off meetings
• Had a discussion with the Triumvirate which had a positive impact on the team
• Facilitated meetings between design team and technical team to synchronise work on large design-led task Example behaviours:
• Identified an information silo and worked with the product teams to mitigate it
• Found an internal talent development programme to help direct report grow

Able to identify, and work with the team to fix, problems with the product teams and process.
Able to encourage senior members of the team to own investigations and proposals for fixes.

Support processes across several product teams.
Directly or indirectly manage, grow, and help lead the technology team.

Example behaviours:

• Develop a quarterly peer review process