Execution - Do you have your customer's requirements?
- Do you have a n approved budget?
- Do you have an approved roadmap?
- Do you avhe an approved schedule?
- Are you delivering the product on time?
- Do you hire developers in a timely fashion?
- Is your team capable of dealing wiht change?
- Are you capable of keeping your team focused and resisting change?
- Do your customers encounter a lot of quality issues with released products?
- Do you and your team measure how well you do your work on a regular basis to find ways to improve?
Communication- Does your team understand your company's strategy?
- Does your team understand engineering's roadmap?
- Does your team understand why the roadmap meets the goals of the strategy?
- Do you have regular communication meetings and e-mail with your team?
- Are people on y our team willing to tell you bad news?
- Do you hear information about your team from your team before you hear it from others?
- Do members of your team communicate with each other and the rest of the company in a respectful manner?
- Do you provide information to your boss before he or she has to ask for it?
- Do other people in the company know what your team is doing and accomplishing?
- Do you communicate in a positive fashion?
Empowerment- Does your team develop and buy into their schedules?
- Do you avoid micromanagement?
- Do you delagate tasks and let your reports proceed without interference?
- Do you make it clear what your employees are accountable for?
- Do you provide leadership opportunities for your employees?
- Does your team have a sense of urgency in addressing issues?
- Do you set cleawr roles and responsibilities for your employees?
- Do all the members in your team know what they need to accomplish each week before they can go home fo the weekend?
- Do your developers consider your organization a positive work environment?
Things to juggle- Resources
- features
- Dates
- Quality
Caveats- If you remove too many features, you won't have a competitive product.
- If you add too many features, you won't make your dates.
- If you scrimp on quality, you'll get a bad reputation.
- If you wait until the product is prefect, you'll miss the market window.
- If you make your engineers work extra hours all the time, they'll burn out.
- If you add too many resources , you can run out of money.
- If you slip the schedule, you make it hard for the sales team to sell and you might miss a market window.
