Questions
What is your job?
What are your core values?
What qualities do you appreciate most in people?
What does success look like in this role?
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How do you express your values?
How do you show appreciation?
Make people more awesome?
Customers, who are they?
Make Safety a pre-requisite
Learn through experimentaton
Deliver value continuously
Virtual digital me
Biological me trading stuff
AR/VR now or next?
Who makes recommendations for me?
Who filters preferences for me?
How is customer data managed and kept secure?
Bargain hunters
What is he next most valuble thing to deliver?
What experients are we doing?
What are we learnng?
Which customers do we like most (why)?
How are we powering them up?
What are our growth markets?
What constraints do we want to remove and why?
Are we able to deliver small changes continuosly?
Who are our shareholders?
What are their expectations?
Business success
Customer success
Personal success
Do you think this role is required at TradeMe?
What do TradeMe engineers struggle with most?
dependencies/handoffs
What are TradeMe's strategic priorities?
prioritisation of work
Contention
empowerment/trust
collaboration
BAU systems maintanace and support, incremental change
Project work, large scale change
Goal setting isn't very well coordinated nor is it sufficiently collaborative, tends to be top down rather that joined up and embedded in agile pracitces, which can differ considerably from one squad to the next.
Trust has to be earned (and takes time to get there)
Some growing pains evident as TradeMe has become an incumbent in the NZ market and there are larger global challengers in market with Brand power
DevOps engineering practices maturing but there are some inconsistencies in approach and the way these are being applied. Proprietary release management pipeline is end of life and being replaced
Tracy doing role now and has too much to do, she needs someone to own delivery and help coach the delivery leads and work with the teams to remove impediments to delivering quality code at velocity