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Swarm performance
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Continuous improvement (holding retrospectives etc.)
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Setting, prioritising, tracking and accountability for milestones, team roadmap and deliverables.
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Make sure there are clear goals for the swarm
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Responsible for improving the quality and output of the swarm
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Coordination of team's efforts
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Resourcing
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Engaging people necessary to successfully achieve the goals of the swarm
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Lateral leadership and influencing across Status
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Managing headcount
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Identifying hiring needs
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Hiring (see Hiring Guide)
- Once you've identified a hiring need, work with PeopleOps to determine the type of hire that you need (the candidate profile, full/part time, salary estimate, etc)
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Finance
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Compensation
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We try to balance giving leads ownership of compensation matters with also having an overall fair and equitable distribution of salaries across Status as a whole.
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As a Lead, you'll be involved in compensation discussions at certain points:
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Upon hiring a new contributor.
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During any regular cycle of compensation review we hold (expected once per year).
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If you believe an ad-hoc compensation adjustment is required (i..e increased salary, one-off bonus) you'll need to bring it up with Carl/Jarrad who serve as the maintainers over the overall distribution.
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For smaller bonuses, and rewards, use the Kudos dapp to reward your team.
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Budgeting
- Finance will provide you with a team budget to manage, and set up a monthly budget call to review progress.
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Approving expense requests within the team budget
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People development
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Giving feedback (both informally on the job, and working with People Ops to hold feedback rounds)
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Create clear process and expectations for swarm members.
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Mentorship to the team
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Supporting onboarding, helping new joiners find their feet
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Recognition (kudos etc.)
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Being a figurehead
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Comms (giving Town Hall updates at least monthly, posting to Discuss, updating Wrike/Pivotal weekly)
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Managing and communicating lifecycle of a swarm properly.
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Being in an interface to the rest of the world.
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Tools/resources
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Wrike, Pivotal tracker and/or GitHub: Used for milestones/tracking/roadmap
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Team lead guide (this page)
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Greenhouse: hiring
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Kudos DApp: recognition
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People Ops policies: useful to be aware of these for team member requests, e.g. travel
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BambooHR: team availability calendar
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Feedback rounds: template for setting up bi-annual feedback gathering
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Team budget: leads can use their budget allocation to e.g. approve conference attendance requests, or give pay increases.