Description
Collaboration
The action of working with someone to create and continuously improve Springbuk product.
Milestone 1
(adds 1 mile to your journey)
Should Have:
- Experience working on a team in a professional setting
 - Demonstrated good collaboration skills with teammates
 - Demonstrated excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical teammates and shows a high level of emotional and professional maturity
 
| Is Expected To: | |
|---|---|
| Collaborate well with all members of the team | Contribute meaningfully to the definition of stories | 
| Propose solutions for completing stories and discuss pros and cons | Develop trust and open communication within the team | 
Milestone 2
(adds 3 miles to your journey)
Should Have:
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate well across technical disciplines
 - Strong understanding of how the work of the team fits together
 - Ability to identify risks of potential solutions, discuss tradeoffs, and propose plans to mitigate risks
 
| Is Expected To: | |
|---|---|
| Understand and be able to articulate how the work of the team solves business problems | Deconstruct a problem into an executable action plan for themselves and other engineers | 
| Solicit feedback across the department when making technical decisions that will have broad impact | Develop acceptance criteria, design solutions, and provide thoughtful estimates even when stories are not completely specified | 
Milestone 3
(adds 6 miles to your journey)
Should Have:
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate well across teams
 - Strong understanding of how the work of the department fits together
 - Ability to identify risks of potential solutions, discuss tradeoffs, and propose plans to mitigate risks
 - Experience balancing competing priorities across more than one team
 
| Is Expected To: | |
|---|---|
| Partner with Product to be prepared for grooming and planning sessions | Partner with Product to provide rough estimates (t-shirt sizes) early in the planning process | 
| Partner with Product and represent technology during tradeoff discussions | Prioritize technical debt and advocate for remediating it | 
| Communicate across the department about technical changes that have broad impact | 
Milestone 4
(adds 12 miles to your journey)
Should Have:
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate well across departments
 - Strong understanding of how the work of the department fits together
 - Demonstrated ability to take large, complex, and potentially nebulous projects and deliver high-quality solutions
 - Demonstrated excellent communication skills technical teammates of any level and with non-technical stakeholders elsewhere in the company
 
| Is Expected To: | |
|---|---|
| Generate support for a company and department decisions | Coach the team to break down large projects into smaller parts that can deliver incremental value | 
| Partner with Product leadership to be prepared for roadmap planning sessions | 
Milestone 5
(adds 20 miles to your journey)
Should Have:
- Strong understanding of how the work of the company fits together
 - Experience balancing competing priorities across a larger organization
 - Experience collaborating with leaders and stakeholders across the company to build a high level roadmap and vision for a department
 - Demonstrated excellent communication skills technical teammates of any level and with non-technical stakeholders inside and outside of the company
 - Experience and excellence in communicating with executives, board members, customers, and leaders of other departments
 
Configuration Health
- ✅ Associated with 1 role
 - ⚠️ Has been referenced in no observations
 - ℹ️ No one has achieved a milestone on this ability
 
- ⛔️ Last updated: almost 5 years ago
 - ℹ️ Never conversed about
 
Role & Position Requirements
- Tech Leadsmust be milestone 2+
 
Examples / Observations
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