@forwardimpact/map 0.11.0

package/examples/questions/skills/devops.yaml

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+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://www.forwardimpact.team/schema/json/skill-questions.schema.json
+
+professionalQuestions:
+  awareness:
+    - id: devops_pro_aware_1
+      text:
+        What do you understand about CI/CD pipelines? How have you used them?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Understands that pipelines automate build, test, and deploy steps
+        - Describes personal experience using pipelines, even basic usage
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  foundational:
+    - id: devops_pro_found_1
+      text: Describe how you would set up a basic CI pipeline for a new project.
+      lookingFor:
+        - Identifies key pipeline stages like build, test, and feedback
+        - Considers what checks provide the most value early in the pipeline
+        - Thinks about developer experience and fast feedback loops
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  working:
+    - id: devops_pro_work_1
+      text:
+        How do you design a deployment pipeline that balances safety with speed?
+      followUps:
+        - How do you handle pipeline failures?
+        - How would AI tools change your approach to pipeline design?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Designs pipelines with progressive confidence stages
+        - Builds in rollback mechanisms and monitoring gates
+        - Considers the developer experience of the pipeline
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  practitioner:
+    - id: devops_pro_pract_1
+      text: How have you improved deployment practices in your team?
+      followUps:
+        - How did you measure improvement?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Identifies specific bottlenecks and addresses them with data
+        - Drives measurable improvements in deployment frequency or reliability
+        - Mentors team members on DevOps practices and tooling
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  expert:
+    - id: devops_pro_expert_1
+      text: How have you shaped DevOps practices across an organization?
+      followUps:
+        - What cultural changes did you drive?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Defines DevOps standards that teams adopt because they reduce pain,
+          not because they're mandated
+        - Drives cultural shift from ops-as-separate-team to shared operational
+          ownership
+        - Measures transformation success through deployment frequency and
+          recovery time, not compliance
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+
+managementQuestions:
+  awareness:
+    - id: devops_mgmt_aware_1
+      text:
+        How do you ensure your team understands the importance of CI/CD
+        practices?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Communicates pipeline value in terms of team confidence and speed
+        - Ensures the team understands pipeline stages and their purpose
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  foundational:
+    - id: devops_mgmt_found_1
+      text: How do you support team members in developing DevOps skills?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates hands-on learning opportunities for DevOps skills
+        - Pairs less experienced engineers with DevOps-strong colleagues
+        - Makes DevOps work visible and valued, not just ops burden
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  working:
+    - id: devops_mgmt_work_1
+      text:
+        How do you establish deployment practices and standards in your team?
+      followUps:
+        - How do you balance deployment speed with risk?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates deployment standards that improve confidence rather than slow
+          teams down
+        - Communicates deployment risk in terms stakeholders can act on
+        - Uses progressive rollout and feature flags to manage risk without
+          blocking releases
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+  practitioner:
+    - id: devops_mgmt_pract_1
+      text:
+        How do you drive DevOps culture and continuous improvement in your team?
+      followUps:
+        - How do you communicate deployment metrics to stakeholders?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Makes deployment metrics visible and uses them to drive improvement
+          conversations
+        - Creates psychological safety around deployment failures so the team
+          learns rather than hides
+        - Coaches team members to own the full lifecycle from commit to
+          production
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  expert:
+    - id: devops_mgmt_expert_1
+      text: How do you shape organizational DevOps strategy and transformation?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Defines DevOps maturity models that meet teams where they are and
+          guide progression
+        - Creates shared platform investments that accelerate all teams without
+          constraining them
+        - Influences organisation-wide culture toward continuous delivery and
+          operational ownership
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10

package/examples/questions/skills/full_stack_development.yaml

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+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://www.forwardimpact.team/schema/json/skill-questions.schema.json
+
+professionalQuestions:
+  awareness:
+    - id: fs_pro_aware_1
+      text: What layers of a typical web application are you familiar with?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Understands the main layers (frontend, backend, data) and their roles
+        - Describes how layers communicate and depend on each other
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  foundational:
+    - id: fs_pro_found_1
+      text:
+        Walk me through building a simple feature that touches the UI, API, and
+        database.
+      lookingFor:
+        - Thinks through the full flow from user action to data storage
+        - Considers how changes in one layer affect others
+        - Plans the implementation order pragmatically
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  working:
+    - id: fs_pro_work_1
+      text:
+        How do you approach delivering a complete feature end-to-end across the
+        stack?
+      followUps:
+        - How do AI tools help you work across unfamiliar layers?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Delivers independently across all layers without specialist handoffs
+        - Makes pragmatic technology choices based on the feature needs
+        - Identifies and addresses gaps in their own stack knowledge
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  practitioner:
+    - id: fs_pro_pract_1
+      text:
+        How do you rapidly deliver complete solutions without depending on
+        specialists?
+      followUps:
+        - How do you handle areas outside your expertise?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Delivers end-to-end features in days by working across the full stack
+          confidently
+        - Uses AI tools to accelerate work in less familiar layers rather than
+          blocking on others
+        - Knows when their cross-stack work needs specialist review versus when
+          it's solid enough
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+  expert:
+    - id: fs_pro_expert_1
+      text: How do you enable rapid full-stack delivery across teams?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates shared tooling and patterns that make cross-stack work
+          accessible to all engineers
+        - Removes specialist bottlenecks by building team capability rather than
+          centralising expertise
+        - Shapes hiring and development to value versatility alongside depth
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+
+managementQuestions:
+  awareness:
+    - id: fs_mgmt_aware_1
+      text:
+        How do you ensure your team understands the full scope of features they
+        deliver?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Encourages engineers to trace features end-to-end, not just their
+          layer
+        - Ensures demos show the complete user experience, not just isolated
+          components
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  foundational:
+    - id: fs_mgmt_found_1
+      text: How do you help team members develop skills across the full stack?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Assigns cross-layer tasks that stretch engineers beyond their comfort
+          zone
+        - Pairs specialists together so knowledge transfers through real work
+        - Creates safety for engineers to work in unfamiliar layers without fear
+          of judgment
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+  working:
+    - id: fs_mgmt_work_1
+      text:
+        How do you balance specialist depth with full-stack breadth in your
+        team?
+      followUps:
+        - How do you assign work to build versatility?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Maps the team's skill portfolio and identifies risky concentrations
+        - Assigns work deliberately to build versatility while respecting
+          delivery commitments
+        - Uses AI tools' ability to fill knowledge gaps as a lever for
+          cross-stack confidence
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+  practitioner:
+    - id: fs_mgmt_pract_1
+      text:
+        How do you build a team culture of end-to-end ownership and delivery?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates expectations that engineers own features from commit to
+          production
+        - Removes structural barriers that force specialist handoffs between
+          layers
+        - Celebrates engineers who step outside their primary expertise to
+          unblock delivery
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+  expert:
+    - id: fs_mgmt_expert_1
+      text:
+        How do you shape organizational approaches to full-stack delivery and
+        team structure?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Designs team topologies that minimise cross-team handoffs for feature
+          delivery
+        - Creates organisational patterns for building versatile teams at scale
+        - Influences hiring practices to value T-shaped engineers over narrow
+          specialists
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10

package/examples/questions/skills/sre_practices.yaml

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+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://www.forwardimpact.team/schema/json/skill-questions.schema.json
+
+professionalQuestions:
+  awareness:
+    - id: sre_pro_aware_1
+      text: How do you know when a service is healthy enough for your users?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Thinks about health from the user's perspective, not just uptime
+        - Shows awareness that different users have different expectations
+        - Recognizes that monitoring and alerting help detect problems early
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  foundational:
+    - id: sre_pro_found_1
+      text: How would you set up basic monitoring and alerting for a service?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Monitors the metrics users care about, not just system internals
+        - Sets alert thresholds that catch real problems without alert fatigue
+        - Builds dashboards that help someone unfamiliar diagnose issues quickly
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  working:
+    - id: sre_pro_work_1
+      text:
+        How do you approach handling incidents in production? What is your
+        process?
+      followUps:
+        - What do you learn from incidents and how do you apply it?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Follows a structured incident response process, not ad-hoc
+          firefighting
+        - Documents findings and drives follow-up improvements
+        - Communicates incident status clearly to affected stakeholders
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  practitioner:
+    - id: sre_pro_pract_1
+      text: How do you balance reliability with feature velocity in your team?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Uses error budgets to make objective speed-vs-reliability decisions
+        - Adjusts reliability investment based on user impact data, not fear
+        - Coaches team to treat reliability work as enabling velocity, not
+          opposing it
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  expert:
+    - id: sre_pro_expert_1
+      text:
+        How have you established reliability culture and practices across an
+        organization?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates reliability standards and SLO frameworks adopted across the
+          business unit
+        - Builds organisational capability for incident response and learning
+        - Influences engineering leadership to invest in reliability as a
+          business enabler
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+
+managementQuestions:
+  awareness:
+    - id: sre_mgmt_aware_1
+      text:
+        How do you ensure your team understands reliability concepts and their
+        importance?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Connects reliability to user impact in team discussions, not abstract
+          metrics
+        - Makes reliability part of feature discussions rather than a separate
+          concern
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  foundational:
+    - id: sre_mgmt_found_1
+      text:
+        How do you support team members in developing reliability engineering
+        skills?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates hands-on learning through incident response participation and
+          on-call rotations
+        - Pairs less experienced engineers with SRE-skilled colleagues on
+          reliability tasks
+        - Reviews reliability practices in design discussions and code reviews
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  working:
+    - id: sre_mgmt_work_1
+      text: How do you handle incidents and facilitate post-incident learning?
+      followUps:
+        - How do you communicate incidents to stakeholders?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Runs blameless incident reviews that produce actionable improvements
+        - Communicates incident status and impact clearly to non-technical
+          stakeholders
+        - Tracks whether post-incident actions are completed and effective
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+  practitioner:
+    - id: sre_mgmt_pract_1
+      text:
+        How do you drive reliability culture and balance it with feature
+        delivery pressure?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Uses error budgets to make transparent trade-off decisions with
+          stakeholders
+        - Frames reliability investment as protecting delivery velocity, not
+          slowing it
+        - Creates team norms where reliability is everyone's responsibility, not
+          an SRE team's
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  expert:
+    - id: sre_mgmt_expert_1
+      text: How do you shape organizational reliability strategy and practices?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Defines reliability practices and SLO frameworks adopted across
+          organisational boundaries
+        - Creates incident response capabilities that work across teams and
+          business units
+        - Influences organisational culture so reliability is valued as a
+          business differentiator
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10

package/examples/questions/skills/stakeholder_management.yaml

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+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://www.forwardimpact.team/schema/json/skill-questions.schema.json
+
+professionalQuestions:
+  awareness:
+    - id: stk_pro_aware_1
+      text:
+        Who are the key stakeholders you work with and how do you keep them
+        informed?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Identifies who depends on their work and who they depend on
+        - Keeps stakeholders informed proactively rather than waiting to be
+          asked
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  foundational:
+    - id: stk_pro_found_1
+      text:
+        How do you set expectations with stakeholders about timelines and
+        deliverables?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Sets realistic expectations early rather than over-promising
+        - Communicates changes to timelines proactively with reasons and
+          alternatives
+        - Builds trust through consistent follow-through on commitments
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  working:
+    - id: stk_pro_work_1
+      text:
+        How do you manage conflicting priorities from different stakeholders?
+      followUps:
+        - How do you decide whose priorities take precedence?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Identifies the underlying needs behind each stakeholder's position
+        - Facilitates trade-off discussions rather than unilaterally deciding
+        - Communicates decisions and reasoning back to all affected parties
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  practitioner:
+    - id: stk_pro_pract_1
+      text:
+        How do you build trust with senior stakeholders and influence their
+        decisions?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Builds credibility through consistent delivery and transparent
+          communication
+        - Influences decisions by framing technical choices in business terms
+        - Adapts their communication style to match each stakeholder's
+          priorities and preferences
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+  expert:
+    - id: stk_pro_expert_1
+      text:
+        How do you manage complex stakeholder landscapes across an organization?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Maps and navigates complex stakeholder networks with competing
+          interests
+        - Builds coalitions to drive organisational change across boundaries
+        - Resolves conflicts between powerful stakeholders while preserving
+          relationships
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+
+managementQuestions:
+  awareness:
+    - id: stk_mgmt_aware_1
+      text: How do you ensure your team understands who their stakeholders are?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Makes stakeholder context visible to the team during planning and
+          execution
+        - Helps team members understand how their work impacts other teams and
+          users
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  foundational:
+    - id: stk_mgmt_found_1
+      text: How do you help team members develop stakeholder management skills?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates opportunities for engineers to interact directly with
+          stakeholders
+        - Coaches team members on communication style for different audiences
+        - Models effective stakeholder communication in their own interactions
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  working:
+    - id: stk_mgmt_work_1
+      text: How do you manage stakeholder expectations on behalf of your team?
+      followUps:
+        - How do you shield your team while maintaining transparency?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Manages expectations proactively by surfacing risks and trade-offs
+          early
+        - Shields team from context-switching without hiding information from
+          stakeholders
+        - Maintains trust through transparency even when delivering difficult
+          news
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  practitioner:
+    - id: stk_mgmt_pract_1
+      text:
+        How do you navigate conflicting stakeholder priorities and build trust
+        across groups?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Facilitates alignment discussions rather than choosing sides
+          unilaterally
+        - Builds trust with multiple stakeholder groups through consistent and
+          fair treatment
+        - Creates transparent decision frameworks so stakeholders understand how
+          priorities are set
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+  expert:
+    - id: stk_mgmt_expert_1
+      text:
+        How do you shape organizational approaches to stakeholder engagement?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Defines stakeholder engagement practices adopted across organisational
+          boundaries
+        - Creates frameworks for managing complex stakeholder landscapes at
+          enterprise scale
+        - Influences organisational culture toward transparent, trust-based
+          stakeholder relationships
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10

package/examples/questions/skills/team_collaboration.yaml

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+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://www.forwardimpact.team/schema/json/skill-questions.schema.json
+
+professionalQuestions:
+  awareness:
+    - id: tc_pro_aware_1
+      text: How do you work with your team to complete shared tasks?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Communicates progress and blockers to teammates without being asked
+        - Shows willingness to help others even when it's not their direct
+          responsibility
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  foundational:
+    - id: tc_pro_found_1
+      text: How do you help a teammate when they're stuck on a problem?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Offers support proactively without waiting to be asked
+        - Shares knowledge in a way that builds the teammate's capability
+        - Balances helping others with their own delivery commitments
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  working:
+    - id: tc_pro_work_1
+      text: How do you facilitate effective collaboration within your team?
+      followUps:
+        - How do you handle remote collaboration?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates practices that make collaboration easy, like shared
+          documentation and regular syncs
+        - Adapts collaboration approach for remote and distributed team members
+        - Identifies and removes collaboration friction points proactively
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  practitioner:
+    - id: tc_pro_pract_1
+      text: How do you build high-performing team dynamics?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates conditions for psychological safety and productive conflict
+        - Addresses interpersonal friction before it undermines collaboration
+        - Builds shared goals that unite diverse working styles
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+  expert:
+    - id: tc_pro_expert_1
+      text:
+        How do you create collaborative culture across multiple teams or an
+        organization?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates cross-team collaboration practices adopted beyond their own
+          teams
+        - Breaks down silos by establishing shared goals and mutual dependencies
+        - Influences organisational culture so collaboration is the default, not
+          the exception
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+
+managementQuestions:
+  awareness:
+    - id: tc_mgmt_aware_1
+      text: How do you ensure your team communicates effectively?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates clear team communication norms for standups, async updates,
+          and escalations
+        - Notices when communication breaks down and addresses it promptly
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  foundational:
+    - id: tc_mgmt_found_1
+      text: How do you help team members develop collaboration skills?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates opportunities for pair and mob programming to build
+          collaboration habits
+        - Gives specific feedback on collaboration behaviours in 1:1s and retros
+        - Models effective collaboration in their own cross-functional
+          interactions
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  working:
+    - id: tc_mgmt_work_1
+      text: How do you facilitate team collaboration and handle conflicts?
+      followUps:
+        - How do you build psychological safety?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Addresses conflicts early through facilitated discussion rather than
+          avoidance
+        - Creates psychological safety by responding constructively to mistakes
+          and disagreements
+        - Builds team practices that encourage healthy debate and productive
+          conflict
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  practitioner:
+    - id: tc_mgmt_pract_1
+      text:
+        How do you build high-performing team dynamics and sustain them over
+        time?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates conditions where teams maintain high performance through
+          personnel changes
+        - Addresses team health issues before they impact delivery
+        - Builds self-managing teams that sustain their own collaboration
+          practices
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+  expert:
+    - id: tc_mgmt_expert_1
+      text: How do you shape organizational collaboration culture across teams?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Defines cross-team collaboration practices adopted across the business
+          unit
+        - Creates organisational norms that break down team silos and encourage
+          knowledge sharing
+        - Influences how the organisation values and rewards collaborative
+          behaviour
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10

package/examples/questions/skills/technical_writing.yaml

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+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://www.forwardimpact.team/schema/json/skill-questions.schema.json
+
+professionalQuestions:
+  awareness:
+    - id: tw_pro_aware_1
+      text: How do you approach documenting your code and work?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Documents work consistently, not just when asked
+        - Understands that documentation helps future maintainers
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  foundational:
+    - id: tw_pro_found_1
+      text: What makes a good README file? Walk me through what you'd include.
+      lookingFor:
+        - Structures READMEs for the reader's needs, not the author's
+        - Includes essentials like purpose, setup, usage, and contribution guide
+        - Keeps documentation concise and up-to-date
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  working:
+    - id: tw_pro_work_1
+      text:
+        How do you write technical specifications that enable others to
+        implement features?
+      followUps:
+        - How do you write specs that AI tools can also use effectively?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Writes specs that reduce ambiguity and enable independent
+          implementation
+        - Calibrates detail level based on audience and feature complexity
+        - Structures specs so they can be verified against implementation
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  practitioner:
+    - id: tw_pro_pract_1
+      text:
+        How do you establish documentation standards and practices in your team?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates documentation standards that the team actually follows because
+          they're practical
+        - Champions spec-driven development where documentation precedes
+          implementation
+        - Reviews documentation quality with the same rigour as code reviews
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  expert:
+    - id: tw_pro_expert_1
+      text: How do you create organizational documentation culture and systems?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates documentation systems and practices adopted across the
+          business unit
+        - Defines knowledge management approaches that reduce information silos
+          at scale
+        - Influences organisational culture so documentation is valued as a
+          first-class engineering output
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10
+
+managementQuestions:
+  awareness:
+    - id: tw_mgmt_aware_1
+      text: How do you ensure your team maintains adequate documentation?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Sets clear expectations about what must be documented and when
+        - Checks for documentation as part of feature completion criteria
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  foundational:
+    - id: tw_mgmt_found_1
+      text: How do you help team members improve their technical writing skills?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Reviews documentation and provides specific, actionable feedback on
+          clarity and structure
+        - Creates pair-writing or review opportunities to build writing skills
+          through practice
+        - Models clear writing in their own specs, emails, and documentation
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 5
+  working:
+    - id: tw_mgmt_work_1
+      text: How do you establish documentation standards and ensure consistency?
+      followUps:
+        - How do you balance documentation effort with delivery?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates practical documentation standards that reduce inconsistency
+          without overhead
+        - Balances documentation effort against delivery by focusing on
+          high-value documentation
+        - Ensures documentation stays current through process integration, not
+          manual enforcement
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  practitioner:
+    - id: tw_mgmt_pract_1
+      text:
+        How do you drive documentation culture and spec-driven development in
+        your team?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Creates team expectation that specs are written before code, not after
+        - Makes documentation quality a visible part of team health metrics and
+          retrospectives
+        - Builds a culture where engineers view documentation as an investment,
+          not a chore
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 8
+  expert:
+    - id: tw_mgmt_expert_1
+      text:
+        How do you shape organizational documentation practices and knowledge
+        management?
+      lookingFor:
+        - Defines documentation practices and knowledge management systems
+          adopted across the business unit
+        - Creates organisational standards that reduce information fragmentation
+          at enterprise scale
+        - Influences how the organisation values and invests in documentation
+          infrastructure
+      expectedDurationMinutes: 10