Task-relevant maturity

Where the standard develops it

• PL-1Delegation, ownership, and decision rightsMatching scope to capability, making authority explicit, not taking work back.
• PL-6Leading through leadersSelecting, developing, and holding accountable the managers who report to you.

Related terms

Reaching around

A leader of managers overriding a manager's decisions with that manager's own engineers, fixing their team's problems directly, or letting their escalations become the leader's workload.

Decision rights

The explicit statement of who may decide what, and at which level of authority.

Delegation brief

The written form of a delegation for anything larger than a day's work: outcome, constraints, authority level, who else is involved, and when the work is next reviewed together.

Intent-based leadership

Replacing "may I…" with "I intend to…".

Judgment debrief

The form a one-on-one with a manager takes.

Key-person risk

Critical capability, context or ownership concentrated in one person, so that the organisation is destabilised when they leave or are courted.

Managerial leverage

Grove's framing that a manager's output is the output of the organisation under them, and that activities differ in how much output they produce per hour spent.

One-on-one

The recurring, protected meeting between a manager and a report.