Producing excellence starts with paying attention to details, in your personal efforts as well as the team as a whole. This track measures your ability to produce high-quality outcomes in your daily work consistently.
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Support: Apply best practices towards excellence for Liferay products / projects:
Work with established standards (coding / design foundations for the company)
Help others as you are able, giving and receiving feedback effectively
Consistently follow guidelines, increasing in autonomy
Participate in pair work
Build: Use your mature knowledge to build and create, starting to help others to grow:
Build excellence in the company using specialized skills and following the stated standards
Consistently provide high-quality work and feedback
Help others grow in excellence
Provide suggestions and carry out improvements that increase the level of excellence in a product, project, or team.
Lead: Influence people by encouraging them to deliver excellence, driving culture and processes at Liferay.
Come up with new techniques or ways to improve the excellence of products/projects and contribute to applying them
Overcome organizational or technical obstacles by pushing your ideas through to implementation
Ability to connect with others and the community
Strategize: Achieve or generate significant business value for the company.
Ship excellent and successful projects within the company
Share your knowledge (continuously and consistently) to the outside world (conferences, workshops, meetups, etc.).
Proven track record of defining and executing new techniques across organizations.
Architect: Person that influences the industry.
Driving successful projects / companies in the Industry
Examples: Ferrán Adrià, Jiro Ono
Collaboration
Collaboration is more than just working with others. It's about sharing skills, methods, and perspectives with colleagues. It requires effectively listening and thoughtfully receiving feedback from others. Cultivate trust and build a shared understanding to solve problems together.
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Support: Help others as you can, giving and receiving feedback effectively
Consistently contributing effective feedback
Help apply methods in order to increase the collaboration effectively in the team.
Build: Use your mature knowledge to build and create, helping others grow
Propose and help execute methods.
Proactively provide feedback to others.
Consistently provide high-quality work and feedback
Help others grow in communication and collaboration
Suggest viable ideas to grow the communication and collaboration on your team.
Share your knowledge (host workshops or blog about new techniques or processes you’ve employed)
Lead: How can I lead communication and collaboration across teams/products/projects?
Influence people/teams/products/projects by encouraging them to communicate and collaborate better through processes at Liferay.
Come up with new techniques or ways to increase the communication and collaboration effectively on teams.
Overcome frustration with organizational or technical obstacles by pushing your ideas through to implementation
Strategize: Achieve, internally and starting in the industry, significant communication and collaboration goals for the company.
Share your knowledge (continuously and consistently) to the outside world (conferences, workshops, meetups, etc.).
Track record of successfully defining and executing improvements across organizations.
Architect: Person that influences the industry.
Participate in architecting community/industry initiatives.
Example: Aaron Walter
Impact
Combining initiative with accountability — impact is seeing opportunities and taking effective action to achieve positive results that contribute to the long-term success of the organization.
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Support: An effective team player who finds ways to serve others
Going above-and-beyond what is requested.
Suggests well-thought out ideas for improving processes, tools, etc.
Build: Make a tangible impact in their immediate context
Helps their teammates provide more of an impact in their respective roles.
Proactively providing and encourage new ideas
Help the Team/Product/Project to be prepared, to be Self-Promotional, and always think ahead.
Lead: Designer who can Influence people/Teams/Products/Projects
Coming up with new techniques or ways to effectively increase the impact of teams.
Overcomes frustration with organizational limitations to drive their ideas to implementation
Has a track record of positively impacting teams.
Strategize: Designer who has achieved (internally and starting in the industry) significant goals for the company in terms of Products, etc.
Spreading his/her knowledge (Continuously & Consistently) to the outside world (conferences, workshops, meetups).
Proven track record of defining and executing new techniques across organizations.
Participate in Community/Industries initiatives.
Architect: Person that influences the industry.
Architecting Community/Industry initiatives: Aaron Walter
Advocacy
The passionate education and coordination of people/principles/practices throughout an organization, using various levers and switches (social, political, economic, technological, etc.), while respecting people’s needs and organizational goals.
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Support: Represents Liferay well externally, interacting with customers, etc.
Influences individuals positively
Act as Liferay Advocate
Increase the interest of possible candidates to join Liferay
Support activity or events where promote design or Liferay specifically
Occasional publication of blog entries, answers questions, etc
Build: Builds industry relationships and supports others’ initiatives
Attends community, customer and/or industry events.
Take an active part on 3rd party events, obtaining feedback actively and helping Liferay staff in promotion and recruiting tasks
Help others grow in Advocacy
Regular publication of blog entries, answers in forums, articles in social networks and other media
Help building and organizing local events
Speak in events
Lead: Leading advocacy initiatives internally and externally
Coming up with new strategies or ways to lead Design Advocacy in teams.
Able to overcome frustration with organizational or limitations to drive their ideas to implementation
Regularly speaks at internal events
Organize communities
Strategize: Achieved significant internal goals for the company and has started to become noticed in the industry.
Shares knowledge with the outside world at conferences, workshops, meetups and the like.
Proven track record of defining and executing new techniques across organizations.
Attracts and recruits excellent candidates.
Architect: Influences the industry
I.e. John Maeda, Daniel Burka, Jesse James Garrett
Influence
Leadership skills are required to guide individuals, teams, or an entire organization to reach a shared goal. As the company grows and the number of people and teams increases, it’s important that some individuals assume additional responsibilities serving people and teams effectively.
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Support: Embodies self-mastery and personal responsibility, takes initiative to serve the team.
Effectively shares responsibility
Informally mentors individuals in an ad-hoc way
Supports new hires
Conveys knowledge of the right way to do things.
Supporting Design Objectives and Key Results
Executing and leading other individuals to follow/pursue (roadmap, backlog, and Design direction).
Build: Is an example to many, mentors a few. Has some explicit responsibilities which requires ensuring other’s well-being, while delivering expected results.
Leads a small team or project.
Mentors people proactively, and guides people to realizations rather than providing the answer.
Proactively building better processes for the team.
Designer who can create standards inside the company from its designs.
Lead: Assumes responsibility for the success of others.
Knows how to keep people engaged, empowered and letting them develop their skills.
Spread best practices and convince others of using them.
Strategize: Provides vision at an Organizational level. Assumes more complex responsibilities, such as leading a large or distributed team.
Caring for people at an organization level, helping shape the systems and influencing other departments
Leader who has proven success internally and, starting to become noticed in the industry.
No longer directly in charge of the team, your plans affect how the team ultimately performs and develops
Have bigger picture goals to manage from a strategic point of view.
Mentor the direct leader
Work with executive leadership to understand the long term goals and how your piece of the pie fits into the big picture
Mentored by executive leadership to understand the expanse of the organization
Ensures that all team members are delivering and feel part of the team.
Leads a guild effectively.
Organizes cost-effective trips that help strengthen relationships, resulting in better communication and collaboration.
Architect: Provides vision at an industry level, impacting all levels for many years, helping to shape the industry
Mentor the Strategic leader
Not only is able to manage people directly, but is able to guide some of them to be excellent managers as well.
Decisions impact all levels, internally and externally
Focus is far-reaching and long-reaching. It’s not just about tomorrow; it’s about years in the future
Successful career as proven Leader, managing multi-teams (products, countries, etc) in a diverse range of Companies.