Cultivating People as the Org Grows

Cultivating People as the Org Grows

Boston DevOps February 15, 2017

Stephen Vance

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What Does a Manager Do?

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People Management• Basic organizational needs

• Hire/Fire

• Reviews/Appraisals

• Raises

• Promotions/Demotions4

Career Guidance

• Career trajectory

• Professional Growth

• Navigating company

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Discipline Mentorship

• Skills development

• Apprenticeship

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Team Leadership

• Coordination

• Inspiration

• Delivery responsibility

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Discipline Leadership• Standards and practices

• Advice

• Review

• Expertise

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Budget Ownership

• Fiscal planning

• Expense tracking

• Expense approval

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Product Management• Personas

• Features

• Designs

• Outcomes

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Program and Project Management

• Schedules

• Dependencies

• Forecasts

• (Budget tracking)

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Honorarium for Time Served

• We don’t have any other way to give you more money or responsibility

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Summarizing• People Management

• Career Guidance

• Discipline Mentorship

• Team Leadership

• Discipline Leadership

• Budget Ownership

• Product Management

• Program and Project Management

• Honorarium for Time Served

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How Does This Help?

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Examine your …Ratios

Values

Aspirations

Performance

Does your structure supportyour needs and goals?

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An Example (Story Time)

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Mapping Roles

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Role EngineeringManager

TeamLead

TechLead

ScrumMaster

Product PMO

PeopleManager✓

CareerGuidance✓

DisciplineMentorship✓

ProductManager✓

ProjectManager✓

ProgramManager✓

TeamLeader✓ ✓

DisciplineLeader✓

BudgetOwner

Mapping Roles

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Role EngineeringManager

TeamLead

TechLead

ScrumMaster

Product PMO CareerCoach

PeopleManager✓

CareerGuidance✓

DisciplineMentorship ✓

ProductManager✓

ProjectManager✓

ProgramManager✓

TeamLeader✓ ✓

DisciplineLeader✓

BudgetOwner

How Can You Apply This?

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CautionOrganizational change is

a hard problem

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For More InfoWhat’s In A Title: “Manager”?, https://blog.vance.com/whats-in-a-title-manager-b3ec1d30f555

Applying Manager Roles, https://blog.vance.com/applying-manager-roles-8c10cc7519d

Alternative management approaches

Ricardo Semler, https://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_how_to_run_a_company_with_almost_no_rules

Reinventing Organizations, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcS04BI2sbk

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Contact MeStephen Vance

http://www.vance.com

[email protected]

@StephenRVance

srvance on GitHub and LinkedIn

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