Lock It In

Rule 9 from Practice Perfect

• Know what it means to be a great performer in your field (it is not always obvious)
• Identify top performers at your organization
  • Make a list of things that mid and senior levels devs can do that juniors cannot
• Identify top performers in your field
• "Make the implicit explicit"
  • The Management Center
  • Other Peoples Children
• What are the skills, habits and mindsets of senior software engineers?

How to Analzye the Game

• Observe, videotape and ask questions of your top performers
• Sit with a team to observe this data, make hypothesis about the skills, discuss and do it again. You won't get it right the first time
• Develop a list of "specific actional steps for incremental improvement."