{ "name": "EMA Competency Framework v3.0 — competency list and proficiency indicators", "version": "3.0", "publisher": "Engineering Management Academy", "source": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "licenseName": "CC BY 4.0", "licenseSpdx": "CC-BY-4.0", "attribution": "Competency list and proficiency indicators from the EMA Competency Framework v3.0 and its Exam Content Outlines, by the Engineering Management Academy (https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).", "competencies": [ { "id": "PL-1", "domain": { "code": "PL", "name": "People Leadership" }, "title": "Delegation, ownership, and decision rights", "oneLine": "matching scope to capability, making authority explicit, not taking work back", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#PL-1", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/people-leadership/delegation", "indicators": [ { "id": "PL-1.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can delegate an outcome rather than a set of steps, stating the constraints and the level of authority that goes with it." }, { "id": "PL-1.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can match the scope of what they hand off to a person's demonstrated capability on that kind of work, with a deliberate stretch and a safety net." }, { "id": "PL-1.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise the moment they are about to take delegated work back, and choose support over rescue." }, { "id": "PL-1.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can delegate a whole team to a manager — its charter, its decisions, its outcomes — and stay accountable for the result without re-deciding it." }, { "id": "PL-1.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can make decision rights explicit across several teams so that a disputed decision has a known owner before the dispute." }, { "id": "PL-1.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can design the organisation's decision rights — which decisions are made at which level, and how that is made visible — so that most decisions never reach them." }, { "id": "PL-1.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can recognise when decisions are flowing upward because the design is wrong rather than because the people are weak." } ] }, { "id": "PL-2", "domain": { "code": "PL", "name": "People Leadership" }, "title": "Feedback and difficult conversations", "oneLine": "timely, specific, behaviour-anchored, in both directions", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#PL-2", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/people-leadership/feedback", "indicators": [ { "id": "PL-2.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can give corrective feedback anchored in a specific situation and observable behaviour, and name its impact, without diagnosing intent." }, { "id": "PL-2.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can hold a difficult conversation early rather than waiting for a review cycle or hoping the problem resolves." }, { "id": "PL-2.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can invite and act on feedback about their own management from the people they lead." }, { "id": "PL-2.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can give a manager feedback about their leadership — a pattern across several moments — with the same specificity as feedback about a task." }, { "id": "PL-2.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can act on damning skip-level feedback about a manager by establishing the facts before confronting anyone." }, { "id": "PL-2.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can give a senior leader feedback about their performance and their effect on the organisation, and follow it with consequences." }, { "id": "PL-2.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can shape a feedback culture through what leadership visibly does with bad news." } ] }, { "id": "PL-3", "domain": { "code": "PL", "name": "People Leadership" }, "title": "Hiring and onboarding", "oneLine": "structured evaluation, calibrated standards, assessing capability rather than tool access", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#PL-3", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/people-leadership/hiring", "indicators": [ { "id": "PL-3.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can run a structured interview against criteria defined before the process starts, and recognise the biases that unstructured evaluation invites." }, { "id": "PL-3.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can assess what a candidate can do rather than which tools they were permitted, and distinguish capability from fluency." }, { "id": "PL-3.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can design a first ninety days that gives a new hire explicit outcomes, a named guide, and early feedback." }, { "id": "PL-3.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can appoint a manager for sound reasons — demonstrated judgment about people, not seniority or retention — and support them through the first six months." }, { "id": "PL-3.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can calibrate the hiring bar across several teams so that the same capability earns the same decision regardless of interviewer." }, { "id": "PL-3.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can make a senior or executive appointment — including the choice between an unproven internal candidate and a proven external one — and own what the choice commits the organisation to." }, { "id": "PL-3.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can run a hiring system that stays calibrated across an organisation and through growth." } ] }, { "id": "PL-4", "domain": { "code": "PL", "name": "People Leadership" }, "title": "Performance management", "oneLine": "expectations, support, honest consequences, and fair process", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#PL-4", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/people-leadership/performance", "indicators": [ { "id": "PL-4.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can diagnose whether an engineer's underperformance is a matter of skill, will, or the conditions they were given, before choosing a response." }, { "id": "PL-4.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can set expectations explicitly enough that a later performance conversation refers to something the engineer already knew." }, { "id": "PL-4.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can follow a fair process to an honest consequence, including a formal one, without avoiding it or rushing it." }, { "id": "PL-4.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can manage a manager's performance, including the performance of their team, and distinguish a manager problem from a team problem." }, { "id": "PL-4.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can run calibration across teams so that ratings are consistent, and challenge a manager's case that lacks evidence or fair process." }, { "id": "PL-4.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can act on a leader's performance problem — including a loyal, long-tenured leader the organisation has outgrown — with fairness and without delay." }, { "id": "PL-4.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can design a performance system that is consistent across the organisation and that people trust to be fair." } ] }, { "id": "PL-5", "domain": { "code": "PL", "name": "People Leadership" }, "title": "Career development and growth paths", "oneLine": "one-on-ones, promotions, the Staff+ track, and the IC/manager choice", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#PL-5", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/people-leadership/career-development", "indicators": [ { "id": "PL-5.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can run a one-on-one that belongs to the report — their growth, their concerns — rather than to the manager's status needs." }, { "id": "PL-5.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can respond to a promotion request with evidence, a named gap, and a path, rather than a yes to retain or a no without reasons." }, { "id": "PL-5.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can help an engineer weigh the senior individual-contributor track against management without steering them toward the manager's own path." }, { "id": "PL-5.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can create growth paths across teams — moves, stretch roles, the senior individual-contributor track — and see who is and is not getting them." }, { "id": "PL-5.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can develop a manager's career deliberately, including toward roles that compete with their own." }, { "id": "PL-5.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can design the career architecture — levels, the senior individual-contributor track, the leadership pipeline — and detect when it is producing the wrong people." }, { "id": "PL-5.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can read succession as a structural property and act on key-person risk before it materialises." } ] }, { "id": "PL-6", "domain": { "code": "PL", "name": "People Leadership" }, "title": "Leading through leaders", "oneLine": "selecting, developing, and holding accountable the managers who report to you", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#PL-6", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/people-leadership/leading-through-leaders", "indicators": [ { "id": "PL-6.I1", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can select managers on evidence of judgment about people and delivery, and decline to appoint the strongest engineer by default." }, { "id": "PL-6.I2", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can develop the managers who report to them through their own one-on-ones, coaching and honest feedback, rather than by sending them on a course." }, { "id": "PL-6.I3", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can hold a manager accountable for their team's outcomes and health without taking the team back from them." }, { "id": "PL-6.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can set a span of control and a management structure that lets managers actually manage." }, { "id": "PL-6.I5", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can build a leadership team as a system — complementary strengths, clear scopes, shared accountability — rather than a set of individually strong leaders." }, { "id": "PL-6.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can develop leaders of leaders, and recognise the signals that a leader is ready for a larger scope before they ask." }, { "id": "PL-6.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can hold a senior leader accountable for an organisation's outcomes and health while acting through them, and know when to replace them." } ] }, { "id": "DE-1", "domain": { "code": "DE", "name": "Delivery & Execution" }, "title": "Prioritisation under constraint", "oneLine": "sequencing, trade-offs, saying no", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#DE-1", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/delivery-execution/prioritisation", "indicators": [ { "id": "DE-1.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can sequence a team's work by value and cost of delay rather than by who asked loudest or most recently." }, { "id": "DE-1.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can say no by surfacing the cost of yes — \"we can do X, and Y slips\" — and let the stakeholder choose." }, { "id": "DE-1.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can protect a team's focus against constant reprioritisation, and recognise when too much started work means nothing finishes." }, { "id": "DE-1.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can prioritise across several teams against a shared bottleneck, and make the resulting trade-offs visible to every team that loses." }, { "id": "DE-1.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can protect several teams' focus from department-level churn without becoming the only person who can say no." }, { "id": "DE-1.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can manage the organisation's portfolio — which bets it makes, which it declines, and when it stops one — and communicate the declined ones as clearly as the funded." }, { "id": "DE-1.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can hold a portfolio steady against executive-level churn while remaining genuinely open to a change in strategy." } ] }, { "id": "DE-2", "domain": { "code": "DE", "name": "Delivery & Execution" }, "title": "Estimation, planning, and honest commitments", "oneLine": "managing uncertainty rather than chasing accuracy", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#DE-2", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/delivery-execution/estimation-and-commitments", "indicators": [ { "id": "DE-2.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can distinguish an estimate from a commitment, and buffer the commitment deliberately rather than promising the estimate." }, { "id": "DE-2.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can re-plan openly when a commitment is at risk, giving stakeholders the choice between scope, date and quality rather than absorbing the gap with overtime." }, { "id": "DE-2.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can decline to give a date on the spot without an estimate, and say what it would take to give one." }, { "id": "DE-2.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can make a commitment that depends on several teams by aggregating uncertainty honestly rather than adding up best cases." }, { "id": "DE-2.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can detect status that has been shaded on its way up, and build reporting that surfaces trouble early." }, { "id": "DE-2.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can build an organisation-wide planning cadence whose commitments the business can rely on, without demanding a certainty the work cannot provide." }, { "id": "DE-2.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can ensure bad news about delivery reaches them in time to act, by design rather than by luck." } ] }, { "id": "DE-3", "domain": { "code": "DE", "name": "Delivery & Execution" }, "title": "Reliability, incident response, and operational ownership", "oneLine": "on-call, SLOs, postmortems, learning from failure", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#DE-3", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/delivery-execution/reliability-and-incidents", "indicators": [ { "id": "DE-3.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can run an incident in progress in the right order — restore service, communicate, then find the cause — and resist debugging while users are down." }, { "id": "DE-3.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can lead a blameless postmortem that changes the system rather than naming the person." }, { "id": "DE-3.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can treat on-call load and service-level objectives as the team's operational ownership, not an interruption to real work." }, { "id": "DE-3.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can establish ownership for a service or a class of failure that falls between teams, before the next incident." }, { "id": "DE-3.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can design an on-call system across several teams that is sustainable, and read reliability trends across services rather than incident by incident." }, { "id": "DE-3.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can treat reliability as a strategic property — investment, risk appetite, what the business is implicitly assuming — and argue for it at the executive table." }, { "id": "DE-3.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can lead the organisation through a major failure — the incident, the communication, the learning, the accountability — in a way that leaves it stronger." } ] }, { "id": "DE-4", "domain": { "code": "DE", "name": "Delivery & Execution" }, "title": "Managing scope, risk, and dependencies across workstreams", "oneLine": "seeing the whole, naming the risk, negotiating the boundary", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#DE-4", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/delivery-execution/scope-risk-dependencies", "indicators": [ { "id": "DE-4.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can name a risk early, with its likelihood and impact, rather than hoping it does not materialise." }, { "id": "DE-4.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can manage a dependency on another team by negotiating a timeline and a fallback, before escalating and before building around it." }, { "id": "DE-4.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can trade scope before quality when a deadline is fixed, and say so." }, { "id": "DE-4.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can see and manage the dependencies between their teams, and the risks that fall between them because each team's view stops at its boundary." }, { "id": "DE-4.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can run a programme that spans several teams with a single view of scope and risk, without making every team wait on a central plan." }, { "id": "DE-4.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can see the systemic risks and dependencies an organisation does not see — the ones no team's view contains — and build the information flow that surfaces them." }, { "id": "DE-4.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can govern programmes that span the organisation without a central plan that every team waits on." } ] }, { "id": "DE-5", "domain": { "code": "DE", "name": "Delivery & Execution" }, "title": "Designing how work flows", "oneLine": "process selection, developer experience, and AI-assisted workflows", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#DE-5", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/delivery-execution/how-work-flows", "indicators": [ { "id": "DE-5.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can choose the lightest process that solves the team's actual problem, and change it when the problem changes." }, { "id": "DE-5.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise when a drop in throughput is caused by interruptions and fragmentation rather than effort, and change the flow of work rather than push the people." }, { "id": "DE-5.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can introduce AI-assisted tooling to a team's workflow with an explicit view of what it changes about review, testing and ownership." }, { "id": "DE-5.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can decide which practices are standard across teams and which are each team's own — aligned autonomy — and explain the boundary." }, { "id": "DE-5.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can invest in developer experience and AI-assisted workflows at department scale, measured by what teams can now do rather than by adoption." }, { "id": "DE-5.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can design the organisation's operating system — cadence, standards, the developer platform — so that dozens of teams deliver without the executive in the room." }, { "id": "DE-5.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can decide the organisation's investment in developer experience and AI-assisted work as a strategic bet, measured by what the organisation can now do." } ] }, { "id": "SV-1", "domain": { "code": "SV", "name": "Strategy & Vision" }, "title": "Engineering strategy", "oneLine": "translating business goals into technical direction, and writing it down", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#SV-1", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/strategy-vision/engineering-strategy", "indicators": [ { "id": "SV-1.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can translate a business goal into the team's work as outcomes — the change wanted in the world — rather than a feature list." }, { "id": "SV-1.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can ensure every engineer can say why their current work matters to the business." }, { "id": "SV-1.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can re-derive the team's plan when circumstances change, instead of defending the original list." }, { "id": "SV-1.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can write a department strategy with a connecting thesis — why these teams do these things — rather than assemble team wish lists." }, { "id": "SV-1.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can defend a strategy against churn and encroachment, and change it when the evidence says so rather than when the pressure does." }, { "id": "SV-1.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can author the engineering strategy — a written, arguable thesis connecting technical direction to the business's goals — and argue it at the executive table." }, { "id": "SV-1.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can keep a strategy alive as the world changes, distinguishing a change in the evidence from a change in the pressure." } ] }, { "id": "SV-2", "domain": { "code": "SV", "name": "Strategy & Vision" }, "title": "Communicating and partnering across functions", "oneLine": "product, design, executives, and non-engineering stakeholders", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#SV-2", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/strategy-vision/partnering-across-functions", "indicators": [ { "id": "SV-2.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can explain a technical trade-off to a non-engineering stakeholder in the language of their outcome, without jargon and without condescension." }, { "id": "SV-2.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can partner with product and design as peers whose constraints are real, rather than as a queue of requests." }, { "id": "SV-2.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can deliver bad news about a delivery to a stakeholder early, with options, rather than late with excuses." }, { "id": "SV-2.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can partner with a product director and a design lead as peers, resolving disagreements about investment with evidence rather than escalation." }, { "id": "SV-2.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can represent engineering's trade-offs to executives so that they make an informed choice, and accept the choice when it goes the other way." }, { "id": "SV-2.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can communicate engineering's position, risks and trade-offs to the executive team and the board in their terms, and secure decisions rather than sympathy." }, { "id": "SV-2.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can build engineering's standing in the company through what it delivers and how it partners, so that it is consulted before decisions rather than informed after." } ] }, { "id": "SV-3", "domain": { "code": "SV", "name": "Strategy & Vision" }, "title": "Roadmapping", "oneLine": "balancing product delivery against platform and quality investment", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#SV-3", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/strategy-vision/roadmapping", "indicators": [ { "id": "SV-3.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can hold a defined share of a team's capacity for platform and quality work and defend it with evidence of what its absence costs." }, { "id": "SV-3.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can present a team roadmap as bets with expected outcomes and confidence, not as a list of promised dates." }, { "id": "SV-3.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise when a roadmap is a wish list assembled bottom-up with no connecting thesis." }, { "id": "SV-3.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can balance product delivery against platform and quality investment across several teams, including work no single team would fund." }, { "id": "SV-3.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can present a department roadmap as bets and confidence levels to people who want dates." }, { "id": "SV-3.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can set multi-year investment across product, platform and quality, and defend the platform's runway against every quarter's urgency." }, { "id": "SV-3.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can decide when a roadmap should change and when it should hold, and explain the decision in terms the business accepts." } ] }, { "id": "SV-4", "domain": { "code": "SV", "name": "Strategy & Vision" }, "title": "Engineering economics", "oneLine": "headcount, budget, cost of delivery, vendors, and build/buy/AI decisions", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#SV-4", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/strategy-vision/engineering-economics", "indicators": [ { "id": "SV-4.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can frame a build-versus-buy decision around total cost, differentiation and reversibility rather than engineering preference." }, { "id": "SV-4.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can account for the cost of the team's delivery — people, vendors, infrastructure — well enough to argue for a change in it." }, { "id": "SV-4.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can evaluate an AI service or vendor as a third option beside build and buy, with its own cost and risk profile." }, { "id": "SV-4.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can plan and defend a department budget and headcount in terms of outcomes and cost of delivery." }, { "id": "SV-4.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can make a vendor, build or AI-service decision at department scale, including the exit cost and who owns the relationship." }, { "id": "SV-4.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can reason about the economics of the whole engineering function — cost of delivery, capital allocation, headcount as investment — and change them." }, { "id": "SV-4.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can make a make, buy or AI decision at organisational scale, including the infrastructure the products will increasingly depend on, with an explicit view of exit cost and strategic dependence." } ] }, { "id": "SV-5", "domain": { "code": "SV", "name": "Strategy & Vision" }, "title": "Engineering metrics and measurement", "oneLine": "choosing, interpreting, and not gaming them, including measuring AI impact", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#SV-5", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/strategy-vision/metrics", "indicators": [ { "id": "SV-5.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can choose delivery metrics that measure flow and stability rather than activity, and say what each one cannot show." }, { "id": "SV-5.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise when a metric has become a target and is being gamed." }, { "id": "SV-5.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can decline to use a single productivity number for individuals, and explain why." }, { "id": "SV-5.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can choose metrics that compare or aggregate teams without inviting the gaming that comparison creates." }, { "id": "SV-5.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can measure the effect of AI assistance on delivery honestly, including where the numbers say it is not helping." }, { "id": "SV-5.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can choose the measures by which the business judges engineering, and refuse measures that would make the organisation worse to hit." }, { "id": "SV-5.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can report AI's effect on the organisation's delivery honestly to the board, including uncertainty and where the effect is negative." } ] }, { "id": "SV-6", "domain": { "code": "SV", "name": "Strategy & Vision" }, "title": "Organisational design and leading change", "oneLine": "team structures, ownership boundaries, reorgs, and transitions", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#SV-6", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/strategy-vision/organisational-design", "indicators": [ { "id": "SV-6.I1", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can design team boundaries around ownership and cognitive load, and see a team boundary and a system boundary as one decision." }, { "id": "SV-6.I2", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can lead several teams through a reorganisation — communicating the why, naming what changes and what does not, and staying present through the transition." }, { "id": "SV-6.I3", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can recognise when a structural problem is being treated as a people problem, and the reverse." }, { "id": "SV-6.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can settle a charter dispute between teams at the level that sets charters." }, { "id": "SV-6.I5", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can design the shape of the organisation — structure, ownership boundaries, the layers between them and the work — around the strategy, and know what each design makes easy and hard." }, { "id": "SV-6.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can lead an organisation through a major transition — a reorganisation, a merger, an acquisition — so that the change sticks and the cynicism does not." }, { "id": "SV-6.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can weigh reorganisation options by their effect on leaders' scopes, ownership clarity and coordination cost, not by who is asking." } ] }, { "id": "TJ-1", "domain": { "code": "TJ", "name": "Technical Judgment" }, "title": "Evaluating architectural decisions and their organisational consequences", "oneLine": "trade-offs, reversibility, and who has to coordinate because of this", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#TJ-1", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/technical-judgment/architecture", "indicators": [ { "id": "TJ-1.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can improve a design decision through questions — what does this assume, what happens when it fails, who has to coordinate — without taking it over." }, { "id": "TJ-1.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can spend deliberation on the irreversible decisions and let reversible ones move fast." }, { "id": "TJ-1.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can see a system boundary and a team boundary as one decision." }, { "id": "TJ-1.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can keep architecture coherent across autonomous teams by setting standards at the boundaries rather than reviewing every design." }, { "id": "TJ-1.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can make a deliberate platform bet on behalf of several teams and own its organisational consequences." }, { "id": "TJ-1.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can own the organisation's technical strategy — the bet-the-company architectural decisions — and evaluate them by their organisational consequences over years." }, { "id": "TJ-1.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can keep technical strategy coherent across acquired teams and systems without forcing uniformity where it is not worth its cost." } ] }, { "id": "TJ-2", "domain": { "code": "TJ", "name": "Technical Judgment" }, "title": "Technical debt", "oneLine": "recognising, quantifying, and scheduling repayment", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#TJ-2", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/technical-judgment/technical-debt", "indicators": [ { "id": "TJ-2.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can make technical debt visible in terms stakeholders understand — what it costs per month, what it risks — rather than as an engineering complaint." }, { "id": "TJ-2.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can distinguish debt worth repaying from debt worth carrying, and schedule repayment as ordinary work." }, { "id": "TJ-2.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise a proposed rewrite as a bet and evaluate it as one." }, { "id": "TJ-2.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can make systemic technical debt that no single team owns visible, and fund its repayment at department level." }, { "id": "TJ-2.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can weigh a large repayment programme against feature delivery with an explicit model of what each delays." }, { "id": "TJ-2.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can present technical debt as a strategic liability — the platform's runway, the business's exposure — and win investment against it at the executive table." }, { "id": "TJ-2.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can decide when a large modernisation is a necessity and when it is an engineering preference dressed as one." } ] }, { "id": "TJ-3", "domain": { "code": "TJ", "name": "Technical Judgment" }, "title": "Code review and quality standards", "oneLine": "including standards for AI-generated code", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#TJ-3", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/technical-judgment/code-review-and-quality", "indicators": [ { "id": "TJ-3.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can set a quality bar the team owns — tests, review, definition of done — and hold it under deadline pressure." }, { "id": "TJ-3.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can shape a code-review culture that teaches rather than gatekeeps, and notice when review has become rubber-stamping." }, { "id": "TJ-3.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can state what review must establish for AI-generated code, and who is accountable for it." }, { "id": "TJ-3.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can set an organisation-level quality bar that autonomous teams meet in their own way, and see when it is being met on paper only." }, { "id": "TJ-3.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can set standards for AI-generated code across teams — verification, ownership, disclosure — without prescribing each team's tools." }, { "id": "TJ-3.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can set the organisation's quality posture and the systems that maintain it — including standards for AI-generated code — without owning any team's practice." }, { "id": "TJ-3.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can recognise when a quality failure at organisational scale is a leadership failure rather than an engineering one." } ] }, { "id": "TJ-4", "domain": { "code": "TJ", "name": "Technical Judgment" }, "title": "Technical credibility and intervention", "oneLine": "staying close enough to judge, and knowing when to step in", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#TJ-4", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/technical-judgment/credibility-and-intervention", "indicators": [ { "id": "TJ-4.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can stay close enough to the team's technical work to judge it — reading designs, reviewing selectively, asking sharp questions — without becoming its bottleneck." }, { "id": "TJ-4.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can decide when to intervene in a technical decision and when to let the team own it, and know which decisions are theirs." }, { "id": "TJ-4.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can resist doing the engineering themselves when the team is struggling, and choose the intervention that leaves the team stronger." }, { "id": "TJ-4.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can stay close enough to several teams' technical work to judge it — through design reviews, architecture forums and the artifacts themselves — without doing it or blocking it." }, { "id": "TJ-4.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can decide when a technical decision in one of their teams is theirs to override, and intervene through the manager rather than around them." }, { "id": "TJ-4.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can decide which technical concerns belong on an executive's personal agenda and track them without displacing the leaders who own them." }, { "id": "TJ-4.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can stay technically credible at executive scope — able to judge a strategy, a risk, a claim — without pretending to a closeness to the code they no longer have." } ] }, { "id": "TJ-5", "domain": { "code": "TJ", "name": "Technical Judgment" }, "title": "AI-assisted engineering", "oneLine": "adoption, governance, capability-building, and risk", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#TJ-5", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/technical-judgment/ai-assisted-engineering", "indicators": [ { "id": "TJ-5.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can introduce AI assistance to a team with explicit expectations for verification, ownership and disclosure." }, { "id": "TJ-5.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise the risks AI assistance introduces — unverified code, leaked data, eroded understanding — and put proportionate controls in place." }, { "id": "TJ-5.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can distinguish where AI assistance genuinely helps the team from where it is being used to look fast." }, { "id": "TJ-5.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can govern AI-assisted engineering across teams — what is permitted, what must be verified, what data may be used — proportionately to the risk." }, { "id": "TJ-5.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can build the capability to use AI assistance well across a department, and recognise where it is eroding understanding rather than adding leverage." }, { "id": "TJ-5.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can set the organisation's strategy for AI-assisted engineering — investment, governance, capability, risk — and say what changes about the work and the workforce." }, { "id": "TJ-5.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can evaluate an emerging AI capability that could be transformative and is unproven, and decide how much of the organisation to bet on it." } ] }, { "id": "TJ-6", "domain": { "code": "TJ", "name": "Technical Judgment" }, "title": "Security, privacy, and compliance as engineering responsibilities", "oneLine": "owned by engineering, not delegated to a function", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#TJ-6", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/technical-judgment/security-privacy-compliance", "indicators": [ { "id": "TJ-6.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can treat a security vulnerability, a privacy obligation or a compliance requirement as the team's own work, prioritised by risk rather than deferred to a function." }, { "id": "TJ-6.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can respond to a security finding proportionately — triage by exploitability and exposure — rather than freezing or ignoring it." }, { "id": "TJ-6.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise a privacy or access-control problem in an everyday decision before it becomes an incident." }, { "id": "TJ-6.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can assign ownership for a class of security, privacy or compliance gap that spans teams and see the fix through." }, { "id": "TJ-6.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can weigh a compliance requirement against delivery honestly, distinguishing what is mandatory from what is merely requested." }, { "id": "TJ-6.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can own security, privacy and compliance as organisational risk — investment, accountability, what the business is exposed to — at executive level." }, { "id": "TJ-6.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can lead the organisation through a mandate that requires re-architecting systems across it, sequencing the work by risk rather than by who shouts." } ] }, { "id": "CC-1", "domain": { "code": "CC", "name": "Culture & Coaching" }, "title": "Psychological safety and productive conflict", "oneLine": "safe to speak, expected to disagree, committed once decided", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#CC-1", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/culture-coaching/psychological-safety", "indicators": [ { "id": "CC-1.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can respond to an admitted mistake, a naive question or a challenge to their idea with curiosity rather than punishment." }, { "id": "CC-1.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can pair psychological safety with high standards, and recognise that \"going easy\" is not safety." }, { "id": "CC-1.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can invite open disagreement about ideas and then expect commitment once the decision is made." }, { "id": "CC-1.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can build psychological safety in the managers they lead and see when a manager's team has gone quiet." }, { "id": "CC-1.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can resolve conflict between teams by making the underlying disagreement explicit rather than by separating the people." }, { "id": "CC-1.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can build trust in leadership across an organisation, knowing it is created in visible moments, spent by inconsistency, and repaid only by behaviour over time." }, { "id": "CC-1.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can make it safe to bring bad news to the top, and can tell when it has stopped being safe." } ] }, { "id": "CC-2", "domain": { "code": "CC", "name": "Culture & Coaching" }, "title": "Coaching versus directing", "oneLine": "developing judgment in others", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#CC-2", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/culture-coaching/coaching-versus-directing", "indicators": [ { "id": "CC-2.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can develop an engineer's judgment through questions rather than supplying the answer, and know when directing is the right exception." }, { "id": "CC-2.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise when they are rescuing rather than coaching, and what the team learns from each." }, { "id": "CC-2.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can coach a senior engineer who is strong technically but does not mentor, document or lift others." }, { "id": "CC-2.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can coach the coaches — develop a manager's judgment through questions — and resist solving their team's problems for them." }, { "id": "CC-2.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can recognise a manager who is too hands-off or too hands-on and coach them toward the right distance." }, { "id": "CC-2.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can develop the judgment of senior leaders through questions and exposure rather than instruction, and build a leadership culture that coaches." }, { "id": "CC-2.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can recognise when the organisation has learned to wait for the executive's answer, and change what the executive does." } ] }, { "id": "CC-3", "domain": { "code": "CC", "name": "Culture & Coaching" }, "title": "Inclusive practices and equitable opportunity distribution", "oneLine": "who gets the stretch work, the visibility, and the benefit of the doubt", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#CC-3", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/culture-coaching/inclusive-practices", "indicators": [ { "id": "CC-3.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can notice who on the team gets the stretch work, the visibility and the benefit of the doubt, and correct the pattern." }, { "id": "CC-3.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can run team rituals — meetings, reviews, on-call, recognition — so that they do not systematically favour the loudest, the most present or the most similar to the manager." }, { "id": "CC-3.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise glue work and ensure it is valued and distributed rather than left to whoever will not refuse it." }, { "id": "CC-3.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can read promotion, opportunity and attrition patterns across teams and act on an inequity the numbers reveal." }, { "id": "CC-3.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can hold managers accountable for equitable practice on their teams without making it a compliance exercise." }, { "id": "CC-3.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can read the organisation's opportunity structure from its data — promotion, attrition, pay, who leads what — and change the structure, not only the outcomes." }, { "id": "CC-3.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can hold the leadership team accountable for equity as a business responsibility rather than a programme." } ] }, { "id": "CC-4", "domain": { "code": "CC", "name": "Culture & Coaching" }, "title": "Motivation, recognition, and sustainable pace", "oneLine": "including in distributed and hybrid teams", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#CC-4", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/culture-coaching/motivation-and-sustainable-pace", "indicators": [ { "id": "CC-4.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise burnout and disengagement early from changes in behaviour, and respond to the person before the output." }, { "id": "CC-4.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can protect a sustainable pace, and treat a run of heroics as a system failure rather than a badge." }, { "id": "CC-4.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise people specifically and in the way that person values, including on a distributed team where effort is not visible." }, { "id": "CC-4.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can sustain motivation and pace across several teams, including distributed ones, through what they reward and what they refuse to normalise." }, { "id": "CC-4.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can recognise department-wide burnout as a system property and change the system." }, { "id": "CC-4.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can shape the organisation's relationship to pace — what leadership rewards, what it survives, what it refuses — including across distributed and hybrid teams." }, { "id": "CC-4.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can sustain motivation through a long period of difficulty by telling the truth about it." } ] }, { "id": "CC-5", "domain": { "code": "CC", "name": "Culture & Coaching" }, "title": "Values, integrity, and ethical judgment under pressure", "oneLine": "what you do when the right call is the costly one", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#CC-5", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/culture-coaching/values-and-integrity", "indicators": [ { "id": "CC-5.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can make the costly right call — on quality, on honesty, on a person — when pressure points the other way, and know that the team is watching." }, { "id": "CC-5.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can act on a values breach by a high performer rather than let results buy an exemption." }, { "id": "CC-5.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise when they are being asked to shade the truth about status and decline." }, { "id": "CC-5.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can hold managers to the organisation's values, including when the manager who breaches them delivers." }, { "id": "CC-5.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can decline to shade status, ratings or commitments upward, and absorb the cost of declining rather than passing it down." }, { "id": "CC-5.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can act on the organisation's values when it is expensive at company level — a launch, a customer, a leader — and knows that this is the moment the culture is actually set." }, { "id": "CC-5.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can exercise ethical judgment where the law, the policy and the pressure of the moment do not settle the question." } ] }, { "id": "CC-6", "domain": { "code": "CC", "name": "Culture & Coaching" }, "title": "Self-management", "oneLine": "the manager's own time, energy, boundaries, and resilience", "url": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/framework#CC-6", "unitUrl": "https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/culture-coaching/self-management", "indicators": [ { "id": "CC-6.I1", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can manage their own time and calendar so that the team's needs, not the inbox, determine where the hours go." }, { "id": "CC-6.I2", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can recognise their own overload and burnout, set boundaries, and ask for help before it reaches the team." }, { "id": "CC-6.I3", "level": "EMA-I", "scope": "team", "statement": "A certified Associate can separate their own anxiety about a situation from the decision it needs." }, { "id": "CC-6.I4", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can manage their own effectiveness as the layer between teams and executives — time, attention, the temptation to be in every room — deliberately." }, { "id": "CC-6.I5", "level": "EMP-II", "scope": "org", "statement": "A certified Professional can recognise when their own overload is degrading their judgment about people, and change their load before it changes their decisions." }, { "id": "CC-6.I6", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can sustain their own judgment and resilience under executive-scale consequence and visibility, and build the support that makes it possible." }, { "id": "CC-6.I7", "level": "EME-III", "scope": "exec", "statement": "A certified Expert can recognise when their own state is shaping the organisation's, and act on themselves first." } ] } ] }