execution.md

Execution

The execution growth track emphasises the development of skills and expertise in technical leadership that fosters delivery of high-quality results. It focuses on the ability of each engineer to continuously improve our work and deliver high-quality results using various techniques and tools.

There are four specialisations within this growth track - delivery, communication, quality and optimisations.

	Delivery	Communication	Quality	Optimisation
	Able to evaluate, plan and deliver wide variety of initiatives that meet their goals, timelines and budget	Masters the art of using tailored messages to communicate effectively with the target audience. Listens and follows-up	Embodies and promotes practices to ensure excellent quality products and services	Challenges the status quo and effects positive organisational change outside of mandated work
1	Understands and effectively delivers individual tasks while following the squad’s best practices	Conveys information within the squad when called upon, and incorporates constructive feedback	Delivers consistently good quality work in accordance with Vio.com's quality approach and standards	Identifies and articulates opportunities for organisational and product improvements
	Provides accurate estimations for simple tasks.	Communicates status clearly using the appropriate tools and channels.	Tests their code thoroughly according to the squad and Vio.com's quality practices.	Asks probing questions triggering conversations for optimisations.
	Delivers small well-scoped projects efficiently.	Seeks and applies feedback effectively.	Writes automated tests for any change or defect they deliver.	Raises valid points during squad retrospectives triggering positive change.
	Writes comprehensive technical documentation.	Asks for help at the appropriate juncture.	Writes clear comments and documentation.	Suggests an improvement positively affecting squad SLO/metric.
2	Understands, plans and effectively delivers small projects while following the squad’s best practices	Conveys information in a concise way across squads and functions, focusing on good quality conversations	Increases the robustness and reliability of codebases, and devotes time to improving the quality of Vio.com products	Implements small changes to positively impact a small feature or an individual
	Investigates and writes postmortems. Implements the actions.	Uses the right channels for communication to make sure everyone is aligned.	Tests other people's code, covers edge cases and catches non-trivial issues.	Proactively picks up defects from the backlog or actions from the postmortems.
	Delivers moderately complex features on time.	Makes sure project stakeholders are aware of progress and bottlenecks.	Continuously refactors existing code and makes it more readable and testable.	Proactively suggests and makes design quality improvement.
	Balances pragmatism and perfectionism appropriately.	Practices active listening and suspension of attention.	Suggests new practices and improvements in existing ones to improve release quality.	Identifies ways to improve application performance and stability.
3	Organises a small squad (2-4 engineers) to effectively plan, estimate and deliver small projects while following the Vio.com's best practices	Proactively shares information, actively seeks feedback, and facilitates communication for multiple stakeholders	Delivers outstanding quality code and supports others in improving their work and the quality of the deliverables	Implements change to positively impact an entire squad or instigates a minor feature or service
	Understands business needs and plans projects accordingly.	Regularly presents at tech talks, weekly demos and all hands meetings.	Regularly provides constructive feedback helping others improve the quality of their work.	Takes ownership of systems that nobody owns or wants to own.
	Facilitates squad rituals to deliver to the expectations.	Resolves communication issues between squads, peers and stakeholders.	Introduces new tools and practices helping the squad to improve the release quality.	Demonstrates concepts proactively with prototypes.
	Delegates and ensures that everyone follows squad's agreements and best practices.	Manages stakeholders and leadership expectations effectively and avoids surprises.	Identifies quality risks while implementing new features and identifies the critical paths to be tested.	Suggests a feature or component that helps optimising the product business performance.
4	Leads a large squad (7-8 engineers) or a couple of small squads to effectively plan, estimate and deliver complex projects with senior stakeholders	Communicates complex ideas skilfully and with nuance, and establishes alignment within the chapter	Ambassador of great quality deliverables, robust and reliable code. Implements processes and systems that improve quality	Drives and implements changes that has a substantial positive impact on the engineering chapter or a major product impact
	Effectively manages cross-squad and cross-project dependencies.	Negotiates effectively on difficult topics such as resources, planning and roadmap prioritisation.	Focuses squads on the importance of quality by articulating impact and continuous feedback.	Champions new processes that help the engineering organisation perform better.
	Involves other functions appropriately to ensure clarification, alignment and delivery on time.	Communicates complex topics such as risk management, tradeoffs, budget and planning effectively and with nuances.	Regularly presents on quality topics in the tech talks meetings.	Exemplifies grit and determination in the face of persistent obstacles.
	Delivers complex loosely scoped projects on time by prioritisation and stakeholders management.	Contextualises and clarifies ambiguous direction and strategy for others.	Implements change that helps eliminating/minimising a whole class of potential defects.	Instigates major new features, services, or architectures.
5	Acts as business owner on and/or leads major company wide initiatives delivered by multiple squads	Influences outcomes at the highest level, manages senior stakeholders' expectations and establishes alignment across tribes and chapters	Quality champion. Enables and encourages the entire Vio.com to embed quality in everything we do	Optimisation champion. Drives and implements change that has a substantial positive impact on the entire Vio.com
	Leads cross-squad projects and coordinates effective cross-functional collaboration.	Improves existing or defines existing processes for effective communication.	Defines and implements quality best practices, tools and policies across the engineering chapter.	Creates a new job function (profile) to solve systemic issues.
	Owns and executes key company projects affecting the total output.	Presents to execs or investors on key company plans using the right format and the right amount of info.	Ensures that everyone considers quality as a high priority activity.	Plans company wide optimisation project and executes efficiently change management.
	Plans and executes company- or chapter-wide annual initiatives (work-streams).	Prepares and communicates business cases, work-stream plans to leadership.	Helps squads secure sufficient time for quality initiatives and activities.	Convinces the leadership team to adopt a new strategy.