@forwardimpact/map 0.11.0
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- package/LICENSE +201 -0
- package/README.md +67 -0
- package/bin/fit-map.js +287 -0
- package/examples/behaviours/_index.yaml +8 -0
- package/examples/behaviours/outcome_ownership.yaml +43 -0
- package/examples/behaviours/polymathic_knowledge.yaml +41 -0
- package/examples/behaviours/precise_communication.yaml +39 -0
- package/examples/behaviours/relentless_curiosity.yaml +37 -0
- package/examples/behaviours/systems_thinking.yaml +40 -0
- package/examples/capabilities/_index.yaml +8 -0
- package/examples/capabilities/business.yaml +205 -0
- package/examples/capabilities/delivery.yaml +1001 -0
- package/examples/capabilities/people.yaml +68 -0
- package/examples/capabilities/reliability.yaml +349 -0
- package/examples/capabilities/scale.yaml +1672 -0
- package/examples/copilot-setup-steps.yaml +25 -0
- package/examples/devcontainer.yaml +21 -0
- package/examples/disciplines/_index.yaml +6 -0
- package/examples/disciplines/data_engineering.yaml +68 -0
- package/examples/disciplines/engineering_management.yaml +61 -0
- package/examples/disciplines/software_engineering.yaml +68 -0
- package/examples/drivers.yaml +202 -0
- package/examples/framework.yaml +73 -0
- package/examples/levels.yaml +115 -0
- package/examples/questions/behaviours/outcome_ownership.yaml +228 -0
- package/examples/questions/behaviours/polymathic_knowledge.yaml +275 -0
- package/examples/questions/behaviours/precise_communication.yaml +248 -0
- package/examples/questions/behaviours/relentless_curiosity.yaml +248 -0
- package/examples/questions/behaviours/systems_thinking.yaml +238 -0
- package/examples/questions/capabilities/business.yaml +107 -0
- package/examples/questions/capabilities/delivery.yaml +101 -0
- package/examples/questions/capabilities/people.yaml +106 -0
- package/examples/questions/capabilities/reliability.yaml +105 -0
- package/examples/questions/capabilities/scale.yaml +104 -0
- package/examples/questions/skills/architecture_design.yaml +115 -0
- package/examples/questions/skills/cloud_platforms.yaml +105 -0
- package/examples/questions/skills/code_quality.yaml +162 -0
- package/examples/questions/skills/data_modeling.yaml +107 -0
- package/examples/questions/skills/devops.yaml +111 -0
- package/examples/questions/skills/full_stack_development.yaml +118 -0
- package/examples/questions/skills/sre_practices.yaml +113 -0
- package/examples/questions/skills/stakeholder_management.yaml +116 -0
- package/examples/questions/skills/team_collaboration.yaml +106 -0
- package/examples/questions/skills/technical_writing.yaml +110 -0
- package/examples/self-assessments.yaml +64 -0
- package/examples/stages.yaml +191 -0
- package/examples/tracks/_index.yaml +5 -0
- package/examples/tracks/platform.yaml +47 -0
- package/examples/tracks/sre.yaml +46 -0
- package/examples/vscode-settings.yaml +21 -0
- package/package.json +49 -0
- package/schema/json/behaviour-questions.schema.json +95 -0
- package/schema/json/behaviour.schema.json +73 -0
- package/schema/json/capability-questions.schema.json +95 -0
- package/schema/json/capability.schema.json +229 -0
- package/schema/json/defs.schema.json +132 -0
- package/schema/json/discipline.schema.json +123 -0
- package/schema/json/drivers.schema.json +48 -0
- package/schema/json/framework.schema.json +68 -0
- package/schema/json/levels.schema.json +121 -0
- package/schema/json/self-assessments.schema.json +52 -0
- package/schema/json/skill-questions.schema.json +83 -0
- package/schema/json/stages.schema.json +88 -0
- package/schema/json/track.schema.json +95 -0
- package/schema/rdf/behaviour-questions.ttl +128 -0
- package/schema/rdf/behaviour.ttl +130 -0
- package/schema/rdf/capability.ttl +466 -0
- package/schema/rdf/defs.ttl +396 -0
- package/schema/rdf/discipline.ttl +313 -0
- package/schema/rdf/drivers.ttl +84 -0
- package/schema/rdf/framework.ttl +166 -0
- package/schema/rdf/levels.ttl +357 -0
- package/schema/rdf/self-assessments.ttl +147 -0
- package/schema/rdf/skill-questions.ttl +155 -0
- package/schema/rdf/stages.ttl +166 -0
- package/schema/rdf/track.ttl +225 -0
- package/src/index-generator.js +65 -0
- package/src/index.js +44 -0
- package/src/levels.js +553 -0
- package/src/loader.js +608 -0
- package/src/modifiers.js +23 -0
- package/src/schema-validation.js +438 -0
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asked to define the systems architecture strategy.
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consumer. They didn't realize the dependency existed.
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it. Your team has 6 members, most of whom are unfamiliar with the
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broader system context.
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- Helps team members see how their work fits the broader system
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- Creates context awareness without blame
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Your team is about to ship a major refactor. Another team's manager
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warns you it might affect their service, but your team can't see how.
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should remain the same. The other team's concern is based on past
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experience where "internal changes" leaked through. You need to decide
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whether to delay the release to investigate.
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- Teaches team to think about downstream impacts
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quarter, 40% of your team's time was spent on reactive work caused by
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upstream changes. Your team is frustrated and wants to "build a wall"
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unnecessary risk. Meanwhile, cascading failures are becoming more
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scope remaining. The team of 5 engineers reports blockers from another
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team. The business committed the date to a major customer.
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multiple feedback conversations. How would you handle this situation?
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expectations but are not growing. Peers are frustrated with carrying
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extra load. You've had 3 feedback conversations with limited
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improvement.
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over the next year. How would you approach this scaling challenge?
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no formal career ladders or management structure. You're the only
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engineering manager reporting to the CTO.
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Your service experienced three outages in the past month, each from
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deployment, and an upstream dependency timeout. SLO is 99.9% and you're
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followUps:
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25
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- What if leadership is pressuring for more features over reliability
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26
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+
work?
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27
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- How would you structure the team's on-call rotation going forward?
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28
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+
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29
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practitioner:
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30
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- id: rel_pro_pract_decomp_1
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31
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text:
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32
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+
You're designing the disaster recovery strategy for a system that
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33
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+
processes customer financial transactions. Walk me through your
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34
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+
approach.
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35
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+
context:
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36
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The system handles $10M in daily transactions, uses AWS in us-east-1,
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37
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and currently has no cross-region capability. Budget for DR is $50K
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38
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annual.
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39
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+
decompositionPrompts:
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40
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+
- What are the key requirements you need to establish first?
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41
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+
- How would you structure the technical options analysis?
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42
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+
- What trade-offs would you present to stakeholders?
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43
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- How would you test and validate the DR plan?
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44
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lookingFor:
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45
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+
- Defines RTO/RPO requirements with business stakeholders
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46
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- Evaluates active-active vs active-passive vs pilot light approaches
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47
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- Balances cost against recovery capabilities
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48
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+
- Plans for regular testing and runbook maintenance
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49
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+
expectedDurationMinutes: 15
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50
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+
followUps:
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51
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+
- What would you do if a regional outage happened before DR was
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52
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+
complete?
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53
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+
- How would you handle if the $50K budget was cut in half?
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54
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+
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55
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+
managementQuestions:
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56
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+
working:
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57
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+
- id: rel_mgmt_work_decomp_1
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58
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+
text:
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59
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+
Your on-call engineers are burning out due to frequent pages and
|
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60
|
+
incident response. How would you improve the situation?
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61
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+
context:
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62
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+
The team is paged an average of 5 times per week outside business hours.
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63
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+
Two engineers have asked to leave on-call rotation. Incident response
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64
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+
often requires escalation because documentation is lacking.
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65
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+
decompositionPrompts:
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66
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+
- How would you analyze the current on-call burden?
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67
|
+
- What changes to the on-call structure would you consider?
|
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68
|
+
- How would you reduce incident frequency and impact?
|
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69
|
+
- How would you sustain these improvements over time?
|
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70
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+
lookingFor:
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71
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+
- Analyzes incidents to identify patterns and preventable pages
|
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72
|
+
- Considers rotation structure, compensation, and workload distribution
|
|
73
|
+
- Invests in runbooks, automation, and self-healing
|
|
74
|
+
- Creates sustainable practices rather than short-term fixes
|
|
75
|
+
expectedDurationMinutes: 15
|
|
76
|
+
followUps:
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77
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+
- What if leadership says there's no budget for additional on-call
|
|
78
|
+
support?
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79
|
+
- How would you handle if the most experienced engineers refuse on-call?
|
|
80
|
+
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|
81
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+
practitioner:
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82
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+
- id: rel_mgmt_pract_decomp_1
|
|
83
|
+
text:
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|
84
|
+
Your organization has grown to 20 services owned by different teams but
|
|
85
|
+
has no consistent approach to reliability. How would you establish
|
|
86
|
+
reliability practices at scale?
|
|
87
|
+
context:
|
|
88
|
+
Some teams have mature SLOs and incident response, others don't. Recent
|
|
89
|
+
cross-team incidents took too long to resolve due to unclear ownership.
|
|
90
|
+
Leadership wants to improve reliability organization-wide.
|
|
91
|
+
decompositionPrompts:
|
|
92
|
+
- How would you assess current reliability maturity across teams?
|
|
93
|
+
- What standards and practices would you establish?
|
|
94
|
+
- How would you drive adoption across teams with different contexts?
|
|
95
|
+
- How would you coordinate reliability during cross-team incidents?
|
|
96
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+
lookingFor:
|
|
97
|
+
- Creates maturity model to meet teams where they are
|
|
98
|
+
- Establishes minimum standards while allowing team flexibility
|
|
99
|
+
- Provides enablement (tooling, templates) alongside requirements
|
|
100
|
+
- Defines clear escalation and coordination for cross-team issues
|
|
101
|
+
expectedDurationMinutes: 15
|
|
102
|
+
followUps:
|
|
103
|
+
- What if teams resist reliability requirements as overhead?
|
|
104
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+
- How would you handle if different teams have conflicting SLO
|
|
105
|
+
definitions?
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