How to measure and improve success in your engineering team

By Medium - 2021-01-24

Description

As an engineering leader, senior developer, or founder of a new startup, I want you to take a minute and think — really think — about a project you are currently working on. But while you are working…

Summary

  • As an engineering leader, senior developer, or founder of a new startup, I want you to take a minute and think — really think — about a project you are currently working on.
  • Once you know where you really are, everything becomes much easier for you to see where you want to be, and in turn, this improves your goal-setting accuracy.
  • Because you recruited smart people, they will realize that no goal you set can be achieved due to unrealistic expectations.
  • Another pattern that has short-term benefits but in the long-term will backfire, is to think, ‘I’ll set a goal which is very high, but I won’t let the team know that if we just reach 50% of it, that would be great.’

 

Topics

  1. Management (0.48)
  2. UX (0.04)
  3. Machine_Learning (0.03)

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