I am a valuable, enthusiastic and net-positive member of a Readify team.
- I am learning to tame complexity when troubleshooting issues and providing resolutions.
- 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 when developing feature enhancements to software products.
- I am learning, maybe through a variety of ways like reading books, reading code, online trainings, doing certifications, attending conferences and user group meetings.
- 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.
- I am a self-managing team member who is continuously learning and embracing agile methodologies.
- 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.
- I communicate professionally and keep stake holders engaged at all times.
- I am well aware of all processes of the team and diligently follow them (like maintaining accurate documentation, maintaining tests and so on).
- Even when I disagree with something I continue to work enthusiastically, learning from the others in the team.
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 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.
- 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 recognise problems early and get in and fix them regardless of whose 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 and usually solve them with an impressive balance of finesse and pragmatism.
- Every venture has mundane tasks but I 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 for my own mistakes and I learn from the mistakes of others.
- I go out of my way develop a friendly and professional rapport with my customer and other team members.
- My contributions to team discussions are net-positive, informative and helpful.
I am a well-rounded developer, problem solver and mentor for people. I represent the unconventional value Readify brings to the market.
- I can confidently step outside my comfort zone and adapt quickly to new team situations.
- I am confident diving head-first into moderately risky environments with relatively little upfront information and oversight.
- I am confident making architectural decisions around infrastructure, identity, security, scalability and maintainability.
- I am confident with transparently assessing risk, making recommendations, escalating appropriately and dealing with the consequences along the way.
- I am proficient at following agile methodologies.
- I can confidently and charismatically pitch ideas and influence my team and my customer's decisions.
I am trusted to on-board and deliver sustained engineering services to our customers with limited supervision.
- I can on-board new customers into Managed Services.
- I can confidently talk to customers about Readify services and solutions.
- I establish processes and leverage frameworks that promote visibility and accountability, while enabling effective expectation management and autonomous operation.
- I am comfortable with building a roadmap for customer's environment to meet their needs.
- I understand the business domain for my customer and their systems.
- I know how to stand-up and maintain a build and delivery pipeline.
- I am actively involved in the retrospective process and am comfortable challenging and coaching my team.
- 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 other developers, deliberately helping them to round out their skill set.
- I am collaborating with other Technical Leads and Consultants in the fields so we can learn from each other's experiences.
- 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 trusted to autonomously lead people through high-risk engagements with a proven record of delivering sustained engineering services and on-going support to our customers.
- I invest in sustainable delivery, maintaining professional standards and striking a pragmatic balance between idealistic purity and business pressures.
- I am typically the first one to take responsibility for reducing waste in our process.
- I am comfortable performing business analysis work. I help customers (Product Owners) clarify their product vision and turn it into an ordered product backlog, or other form of requirements, collaborating with them to reach a shared understanding of what should be built, including acceptance criteria.
- I recognise problems with my team, my engagement and/or my customer and proactively engage with relevant Account Managers, People Managers, LC/PCs as needed to prevent or resolve them quickly.
- I have strong presentation skills, learning to effectively tailor my content and conversation to many customers.
- I exhibit the soft skills needed to lead teams and have a track record of building growth and maturity into the people I work with.
- I am comfortable with helping customers understand how to organise requirements to support scaling to multiple teams, and helping them balance the "iron triangle" constraints of time, cost, scope and quality.
- I'm not afraid to have difficult conversations when needed, and do so with tact and care.
- I set clear expectations for people and they know how they are progressing against those expectations. I create bounded environments for action and let people have freedom within those boundaries.
- I know when and how to apply different coaching and mentoring techniques, understanding the maturity level of those I'm helping.
- I am able to provide perspective for those I'm serving by reminding them of the big picture when they get stuck in the details and day to day of solving problems.
- I am prioritising the needs of my team members above my own, knowing that their success is our success.
- 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 actively track the progress of our team using agile project management techniques, keeping the goals of the project and our constraints front of mind. I make this information visible and transparent internally and externally to minimise 'surprises' and to facilitate early and pragmatic problem resolution.
- 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 to rest of Readify.
- I am involved in some kind of initiative at the national level in Readify.
- People value my opinions and ideas. They come to me for advice knowing I will empathise with them and understand their situation before providing options to them.
- I have a demonstrated preference to help people discover solutions to problems for themselves first, before giving them guidance.
- I am a good sounding-board and proactively broaden the perspective of teams and individuals with whom I'm working.
- I know how to identify potential issues and will take action to head them off before they eventuate, wether they be technical, requirements or people based.
- I am confident handling situations where we have made mistakes and working towards outcomes that are acceptable to both the customer and Readify.