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Team Canvas

A high-level way to communicate roles and responsibilities to people involved in projects. Typically you want more people on the left of the funnel compared to the right. A handy tool if lots of people say they want to be a Core Team Member when they only have two hours to give a week.

Template

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVM2VglUo=/?moveToWidget=3458764614833216479&cot=14

Source: https://futurefriendly.team/

Responsibility framework

Shopify's product team has a neat framework for clarifying responsibilities on projects. It's called the AAA framework.

Most companies think of hierarchy and jobs basically as this sort of single line of leadership downward, based on how senior you are. But a few years ago we introduced the AAA framework. The idea is you don’t want to take on a leadership job and suddenly be responsible for aiming when you’re really passionate about assembly, or the other way around. It’s helped us put people in the right roles and not just have one dimension of leadership that everyone has to conform to.

Each team member is assigned one of three roles:

  1. Aiming: responsible for strategy and direction of what we are building

  2. Assembling: responsible for bringing the right people together and keeping them on track

  3. Achieving: responsible for the day-to-day work of getting shit done (GSD) like design, code, etc.

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Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lennyrachitsky_shopifys-product-team-has-a-neat-framework-activity-7089699891727228930-WjWA/

Dunning-Kruger Effect

This effect not only applies to those with lower abilities thinking they are better but also to experts who think they’re not exceptional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOLmD_WVY-E

Source: https://kottke.org/18/06/the-dunning-kruger-effect-we-are-all-confident-idiots

Kanter’s Law