Layers of Leadership • Lee Campbell • YOW! 2023

Interesting. speech Lee Campbell, VP of Engineering at VGW — Leadership challenges The challenges facing leaders: people, delivery, operations. It is important for a leader to work with people. competency (build it right, run it right), performance (right thing, right time) and alignment (right people, right place). Then he moves on to — Start-up challenges Here the author talks about the formation of a team and immerses himself in the challenges of startups. The author offers a metaphor of direction - map - path, which allows a startup and its team to move in the face of uncertainty. The author talks about the trinity —— Competency (what) -> reference example —— Performance (how) -> performance expectations —— Alignment (why) -> outcome focused — Teamwork challenges - here the author talks about questions of people like "Who will do what and when?", "How can I grow in a company" and at the system level: "What should this system do?", "Is technical debt bad?" To answer these questions, the author suggests using maps and measures. —— Competency (what) Competitive matrix for employees —— Performance (how) maturity models for systems and teams —— Alignment (why) Measurable outcomes for measuring team results — Org. challenges - here are the following challenges: Large projects are never prioritized and will be completed almost never. – KPI, OKR – when a decision becomes an outcome, about the separation between work and goals and metrics that are not directly influenced To solve these problems, the author proposes to use Driver trees are trees that allow you to connect from what to how through a set of drivers that you can influence. Paths & Practices - the author talks about training, as well as working on the performance of himself and his teams and gives an example of working on improving the work within the incident Coordinated strategy - shown in the picture

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