Dan Abel @ Agile on the Beach
Walls and The Turrets Summary
Shape
What How How
Key jobs to make it happen
Breakdown
1. Supporting Beginner Engineers to Competency
Deep dive: Three steps to successfully onboard junior engineers | LeadDev
Direct Beginners to build Solid Foundations
On a growth oriented landscape of a team that can support their growth
Lay the foundations stones
Stone 1: Strong onboarding
Stone 2: Engineering foundations
Stone 3: Delivery & shipping code
2. Supporting Competent Engineers to Fluency
Deep Dive: 4 ways to technically upskill mid-level engineers | LeadDev
Guide toward a wall of engineering skills
Give them routes to guide their progress
Put them in the driving seat
Encourage practice and reflection
3. Supporting Fluent Engineers to Mastery
Deep Dive: 4 ways to help senior engineers grow toward mastery | LeadDev
Sponsor tall towers and elegant designs
Ask big questions
Sponsor their growth / mission
Coach the gaps
4. Guiding Post-Mastery
Reorient to build leadership scaffolding and run site safety
Provide Straight talking and clarity
Ask them how they should scale themselves
Acknowledge doing everything isn’t possible
Focus on developing leadership skills
Supporting Links
Motivated employees
Statistics
Gallop: U.S. Engagement Hits 11-Year Low
more reading
Career growth
perspectives
Sara Dolganov: Rethinking collaboration: LLMs, teams, and cognitive load
The Engineer’s Guide to Career Growth — Advice from My Time at Stripe and Facebook