Clear Objectives are what you need in order to enable autonomy, that leads to real results.
!!"Never tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity"
Mission vs Objective: Mission lasts forever and Objective has an end date and measurable.
Objective
Clear
Defined end date (Fixed Time Period)
Say - These are the objectives for certain point in time. That means, we can say, exactly what we can do and how we can do to get there by then and they should be also measurable.
measurable
Objective: pro tips
Set stretch goals
!!Everyone on the team should contribute (transparency very required)
ask the team to really think about what it is that they think would make the most difference and we should be doing for all of us to have the best product
[ask the product managers to teach or walk the devs through the thought process on why certain company objective was chosen or what kind of objective sounds good]
extremely important that there is total transparency in the organization.
Everyone can see the data coming back from users. Can see all the metrics. Actually understands all the challenges of the business (including time challenges).
Then you find, the things we should be doing, will come up kind of organically from the team.
Of course, Job of engineering leaders is that as we synthese (organize) those suggestions by the team, and see that we are really headed in the right direction
Check in on progress (OKR's)
If anytime there is doubt about that, the best thing to do is get together with team and just keep talking and sharing all the input that everyone has.
Engineers can come in every day and chose what to work on. This just organically happens, once they see the scores.
Iterate -> score progress and reflect on it
Use score to check on in the health of the team and plan ahead
Objectives -> Plans -> Actions
Engineering, PM, Design are three legs of same stool needed to keep the stool standing.
When all of these, kind of exists in a mild-meld that teams make the most progress so by that I mean - all 3 spend so much time working together that they share the same perspective. They agree on the solutions that they are going to move forward with.
How is this possible?
Get everyone sitting together and able to talk in a frequent high bandwidth way, so they can achieve this mind-meld.
Another thing is the size of the team. 7 +- 2
Turning plans into action
!!!Always be shipping
nothing helps achieve more productivity and more ability to work on the right thing.
you got this tight feedback loop on what you do and what users are seeing.
Everyone on this team is seeing this impact, then they can decide on what to work on really well
(comment: celebrate numbers)
Really important to measure everything.
No argument of, did that thing work or not?
if not, lets go back and plan
Priorities?
By having the team, understand all of the externalities and goals - you find many times those priorities get resolved internally.
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6 years ago 
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Clear Objectives are what you need in order to enable autonomy, that leads to real results.
Mission vs Objective: Mission lasts forever and Objective has an end date and measurable.
Objective
Objective: pro tips
Set stretch goals
!!Everyone on the team should contribute (transparency very required)
ask the team to really think about what it is that they think would make the most difference and we should be doing for all of us to have the best product
[ask the product managers to teach or walk the devs through the thought process on why certain company objective was chosen or what kind of objective sounds good]
extremely important that there is total transparency in the organization.
Everyone can see the data coming back from users. Can see all the metrics. Actually understands all the challenges of the business (including time challenges).
Then you find, the things we should be doing, will come up kind of organically from the team.
Of course, Job of engineering leaders is that as we synthese (organize) those suggestions by the team, and see that we are really headed in the right direction
Check in on progress (OKR's)
Iterate -> score progress and reflect on it
Objectives -> Plans -> Actions
Turning plans into action
Priorities?