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My hope is that this\nwill be a guide for both of us. This is a way for me to express my values and keep me accountable to them, as well as illustrating to\nyou those values and help align us both.\n\nThe most important value I have is [servant leadership](#servant-leadership). My primary and most important function as your leader is\nto serve your needs and to nuture your career.\n\n## What is my role?\n\nAs an engineering lead, I am both an individual contributor as well as a people leader. I view my responsibilities to be the following:\n\n- Be a voice for engineering both on our team and within our organization\n\n- Take ownership of team health and alignment with the Journey Team model\n\n- Mentor other engineers and help them grow their abilities\n\n- Own engineering quality; build resilient and scalable products\n\n- Invest in those I lead; nuture and support their career goals\n\n## What are my values?\n\n### Servant leadership\n\n[From Robert K. Greenleaf](https://www.greenleaf.org/what-is-servant-leadership/):\n\n\u003e It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead.\n\nMy philisophy as a leader is to serve the needs of those I lead. I believe the most important thing I can do as a leader is to grow, nuture,\nand elevate others; in fact this is my responsibility. I value your feedback, as I hope that you value mine; if I am not serving you as best\nI could and falling short in some way, please let me know! I am not perfect and am always looking to improve, and your best interests are\nalso mine.\n\n\u003e A servant-leader focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong. While traditional leadership generally involves the accumulation and exercise of power by one at the “top of the pyramid,” servant leadership is different. The servant-leader shares power, puts the needs of others first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible.\n\n### Mentorship\n\nFrom William Arthur Ward:\n\n\u003e The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.\n\nMentorship is the most impactful activity a software engineer can engage in. A good mentor has a multiplicative effect within an\norganization. The most productive, prolific, and brilliant engineer may create amazing, useful, and impactful work. A brilliant mentor will\ncreate brilliant engineers. You do the math!\n\nMy goal is to be a mentor to you, and to instill in you the value of mentorship by example.\n\n### Product mindset\n\n[From Steve Jobs](https://www.forbes.com/sites/micahsolomon/2014/11/21/how-apple-thinks-differently-about-the-customer-service-experience-and-how-it-can-help-you):\n\n\u003e You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around.\n\nAs software engineers, often we can become absorbed by the languages, frameworks, and technologies we use. Sometimes, they can become the\nfocus rather than the products themselves. We should always remember that at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how elegant our solution\nto a problem is, how scalable our platform is, or how dynamic and configurable our implementations are if no users want to use the things\nwe've built! Don't miss the forest for the trees.\n\nWe should always do that which is in service of the customer and the product. We should be focusing on delivering value to the user. We\nshould obsess over what our users want and how we can give it to them.\n\n### Engineering excellence\n\n[From \"Uncle Bob\" Martin](https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/1163789159309434880):\n\n\u003e The only way to go fast is to go well.\n\nSlow is smooth, smooth is fast. Having a product mindset and delivering value is important, but it is not an excuse to rush quickly and\nbuild terrible systems. The products and platforms we build should be thoughtfully designed: extensible, resilient, and scalable.\n\n## Expectations\n\n### Working together\n\nHaving time where we can communicate with each other and sync is critical. I believe strongly in the importance of one-on-one time; we\nwill have a recurring meeting every week or so where we can chat. This is your time, and you should own the agenda (please come\nprepared). I will often have things to discuss, but overall what we talk about and when is entirely up to you!\n\nIf you want to chat with me anytime, please do! Hit me up on Slack if it is not urgent, or in-person if it is. Don't assume that I am\ntoo busy, it is my responsibility to make myself available to you.\n\nI expect that you will own our one-on-one time by setting the agenda and coming prepared. I expect that you will respect my time, as I\nwill respect yours. You can expect from me to prioritize our one-on-one time and to make myself available to you.\n\n### You control your own time\n\nOur expectation is that everyone who we add to our team is professional and capable of making sure that they are meeting their\nresponsibilities and commitments. We do not track your time, or assign you work. We believe in being flexible and that everyone should\nhave the ability to work around their life.\n\nAs such, I expect that you will be an engaged and active member of the team. I expect that you will proactively work towards the goals\nof the team. Likewise, you can expect from me that I will not micromanage you and that I will support your autonomy.\n\n### Availability\n\nAt Asurion we believe in a healthy work-life balance. We have an unlimited PTO policy, and we encourage everyone to use it. We want you\nto take time off to recharge, refresh, and come back to your team with energy and focus. We also believe in flexibility with working\nremotely as needed.\n\nI expect that you will communicate to your team if you will be taking vacation, are sick, working remotely, or are otherwise\nunavailable with a reasonable amount of notice so that the team is not negatively impacted, if possible. I expect that if you are\nworking remotely, you will be available via our communication tools (email, Slack, Zoom).\n\nYou can expect from me that I will respect your time off and that I will ensure you have flexibility in your working hours.\n\n### Career development\n\nMy primary focus as your people leader is your career development. I want to understand what your goals are and to support you in\nachieving them. As an organization we identify goals (personal goals and business goals) at the beginning of the year and then sync\non our progress every quarter. Using feedback from our peers and leaders we are able to determine what our successes are and possible\nareas for improvement.\n\nI expect that you will be an active participant in growing your own career. I expect that you will make progress to your stated career\ngoals. You can expect that I will support you in these goals and be an advocate on your behalf. You can expect that I will give you\nmeaningful and constructive feedback about your progress and performance. You can expect that I will make your successes known and\nalways seek to elevate your career.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdaniel-cottone%2Freadme","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fdaniel-cottone%2Freadme","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdaniel-cottone%2Freadme/lists"}