@forwardimpact/map 0.12.0 → 0.14.0

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  1. package/README.md +1 -1
  2. package/bin/fit-map.js +12 -12
  3. package/package.json +9 -6
  4. package/schema/json/discipline.schema.json +6 -6
  5. package/schema/rdf/discipline.ttl +19 -19
  6. package/src/index-generator.js +67 -38
  7. package/src/index.js +10 -25
  8. package/src/loader.js +407 -562
  9. package/src/schema-validation.js +327 -307
  10. package/examples/behaviours/_index.yaml +0 -8
  11. package/examples/behaviours/outcome_ownership.yaml +0 -43
  12. package/examples/behaviours/polymathic_knowledge.yaml +0 -41
  13. package/examples/behaviours/precise_communication.yaml +0 -39
  14. package/examples/behaviours/relentless_curiosity.yaml +0 -37
  15. package/examples/behaviours/systems_thinking.yaml +0 -40
  16. package/examples/capabilities/_index.yaml +0 -8
  17. package/examples/capabilities/business.yaml +0 -205
  18. package/examples/capabilities/delivery.yaml +0 -1001
  19. package/examples/capabilities/people.yaml +0 -68
  20. package/examples/capabilities/reliability.yaml +0 -349
  21. package/examples/capabilities/scale.yaml +0 -1672
  22. package/examples/copilot-setup-steps.yaml +0 -25
  23. package/examples/devcontainer.yaml +0 -21
  24. package/examples/disciplines/_index.yaml +0 -6
  25. package/examples/disciplines/data_engineering.yaml +0 -68
  26. package/examples/disciplines/engineering_management.yaml +0 -61
  27. package/examples/disciplines/software_engineering.yaml +0 -68
  28. package/examples/drivers.yaml +0 -202
  29. package/examples/framework.yaml +0 -73
  30. package/examples/levels.yaml +0 -115
  31. package/examples/questions/behaviours/outcome_ownership.yaml +0 -228
  32. package/examples/questions/behaviours/polymathic_knowledge.yaml +0 -275
  33. package/examples/questions/behaviours/precise_communication.yaml +0 -248
  34. package/examples/questions/behaviours/relentless_curiosity.yaml +0 -248
  35. package/examples/questions/behaviours/systems_thinking.yaml +0 -238
  36. package/examples/questions/capabilities/business.yaml +0 -107
  37. package/examples/questions/capabilities/delivery.yaml +0 -101
  38. package/examples/questions/capabilities/people.yaml +0 -106
  39. package/examples/questions/capabilities/reliability.yaml +0 -105
  40. package/examples/questions/capabilities/scale.yaml +0 -104
  41. package/examples/questions/skills/architecture_design.yaml +0 -115
  42. package/examples/questions/skills/cloud_platforms.yaml +0 -105
  43. package/examples/questions/skills/code_quality.yaml +0 -162
  44. package/examples/questions/skills/data_modeling.yaml +0 -107
  45. package/examples/questions/skills/devops.yaml +0 -111
  46. package/examples/questions/skills/full_stack_development.yaml +0 -118
  47. package/examples/questions/skills/sre_practices.yaml +0 -113
  48. package/examples/questions/skills/stakeholder_management.yaml +0 -116
  49. package/examples/questions/skills/team_collaboration.yaml +0 -106
  50. package/examples/questions/skills/technical_writing.yaml +0 -110
  51. package/examples/self-assessments.yaml +0 -64
  52. package/examples/stages.yaml +0 -191
  53. package/examples/tracks/_index.yaml +0 -5
  54. package/examples/tracks/platform.yaml +0 -47
  55. package/examples/tracks/sre.yaml +0 -46
  56. package/examples/vscode-settings.yaml +0 -21
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- # yaml-language-server: $schema=https://www.forwardimpact.team/schema/json/behaviour-questions.schema.json
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-
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- professionalQuestions:
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- emerging:
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- - id: sys_pro_emerg_1
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- text:
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- You are asked to add a caching layer to a frequently called API
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- endpoint. The change seems straightforward but the endpoint is used by
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- three other services.
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- context:
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- The endpoint currently handles 500 requests per second. Two of the
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- consuming services expect real-time data, while the third can tolerate
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- staleness. Your team owns the endpoint but not the consuming services.
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- simulationPrompts:
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- - What would you check before implementing the cache?
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- - How would you find out who depends on this endpoint?
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- - What could go wrong with adding caching here?
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- - How would you communicate the change to the other teams?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Considers immediate dependencies before making changes
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- - Recognizes that systems have interconnected parts
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- - Asks about downstream impact rather than assuming it's safe
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- - Shows basic cause-and-effect thinking
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 20
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-
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- developing:
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- - id: sys_pro_dev_1
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- text:
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- After deploying a database migration, response times on an unrelated
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- service have increased by 300%. There is no obvious connection between
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- the two.
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- context:
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- The migration added an index to a high-traffic table. The affected
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- service shares the same database cluster but uses different tables.
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- Monitoring shows increased lock contention during peak hours.
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- simulationPrompts:
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- - How would you investigate the connection between these two events?
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- - What tools would you use to trace the impact?
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- - How would you map the dependencies that led to this?
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- - What would you do to resolve it while the investigation continues?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Identifies upstream and downstream impacts methodically
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- - Uses observability tools to trace cross-service effects
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- - Maps dependencies before proposing a fix
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- - Understands feedback loops in shared infrastructure
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 20
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-
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- practicing:
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- - id: sys_pro_pract_1
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- text:
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- Your team is proposing to replace a synchronous API with an event-driven
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- architecture. The change would affect 6 consuming services across 3
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- teams.
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- context:
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- The current API handles order processing. Moving to events would improve
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- throughput but change data consistency guarantees. Two of the consuming
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- services have SLAs that depend on synchronous confirmation. Business
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- stakeholders want the throughput improvement for peak season.
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- simulationPrompts:
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- - How would you map the full system impact of this architectural change?
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- - How do you handle the teams whose SLAs depend on synchronous
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- behaviour?
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- - What would your migration approach look like?
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- - How would you help business stakeholders understand the trade-offs?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Maps complex interactions across technical and business domains
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- - Anticipates cascading effects of architectural changes
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- - Designs migration that degrades gracefully during transition
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- - Understands how technology changes impact business operations
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 20
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-
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- role_modeling:
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- - id: sys_pro_role_1
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- text:
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- A major outage was caused by a cascading failure across 4 services. The
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- post-mortem reveals that no single team understood the full dependency
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- chain.
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- context:
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- The cascade started with a memory leak in Service A, which caused
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- timeouts in Service B, which triggered retries that overwhelmed Service
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- C, which failed over incorrectly to Service D. Each team had local
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- monitoring but no one had end-to-end visibility. This is the second
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- cascading failure this quarter.
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- simulationPrompts:
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- - How would you lead the cross-team investigation?
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- - What systemic changes would you propose to prevent cascading failures?
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- - How would you create shared visibility across these teams?
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- - How do you make the case for investing in system-wide resilience?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Shapes systems design practices across the function
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- - Bridges technical systems thinking with business process impact
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- - Creates clarity from complexity for multiple stakeholder groups
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- - Influences cross-team architecture decisions
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 20
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-
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- exemplifying:
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- - id: sys_pro_exemp_1
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- text:
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- The organisation is scaling from 20 to 80 microservices. Complexity is
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- growing faster than the team's ability to reason about the system.
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- context:
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- Incident frequency has tripled in 6 months. Teams operate in silos with
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- no shared architectural principles. Executive leadership is concerned
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- about reliability but doesn't want to slow feature delivery. You've been
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- asked to define the systems architecture strategy.
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- simulationPrompts:
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- - How would you define organizational systems architecture principles?
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- - How do you balance team autonomy with system-wide coherence?
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- - How would you advise executive leadership on the systemic risks?
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- - What governance structures would you put in place?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Defines organizational systems architecture principles
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- - Advises executive leadership on systemic risks and opportunities
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- - Creates frameworks that scale with organizational growth
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- - Takes an approach recognized as industry-leading
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 20
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- followUps:
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- - How would you measure whether systems thinking is improving?
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-
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- managementQuestions:
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- emerging:
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- - id: sys_mgmt_emerg_1
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- text:
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- A team member made a change to your service that broke a downstream
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- consumer. They didn't realize the dependency existed.
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- context:
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- The downstream team is upset and your team member feels terrible. The
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- dependency wasn't documented and there's no integration test covering
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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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- simulationPrompts:
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- - How do you help the team member understand what happened?
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- - What do you say to the downstream team?
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- - How do you help your team understand the broader system context?
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- - What would you put in place to prevent similar blind spots?
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- lookingFor:
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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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- - Shows basic understanding of system dependencies
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- - Takes steps to improve visibility
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 20
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-
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- developing:
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- - id: sys_mgmt_dev_1
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- text:
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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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- context:
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- The refactor changes internal data structures but the API contract
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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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- simulationPrompts:
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- - How do you assess the risk the other manager is raising?
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- - How do you help your team think about second-order effects?
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- - What would you do if your team disagrees with the delay?
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- - How do you build a collaborative relationship with the other team?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Teaches team to think about downstream impacts
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- - Takes cross-team concerns seriously even without proof
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- - Facilitates systems thinking in planning decisions
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- - Builds collaborative relationships across team boundaries
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 20
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-
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- practicing:
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- - id: sys_mgmt_pract_1
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- text:
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- Your team needs to plan a quarter of work but keeps getting interrupted
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- by production issues caused by other teams' changes affecting your
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- service.
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- context:
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- Your service is a critical dependency for 5 other teams. In the last
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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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- with strict API contracts.
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- simulationPrompts:
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- - How do you structure your team's work to account for cross-system
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- dependencies?
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- - How would you work with the other teams rather than building walls?
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- - What systemic improvements would you propose?
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- - How do you protect your team while maintaining collaborative system
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- stewardship?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Embeds systems thinking into team planning processes
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- - Coordinates cross-team to address systemic issues
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- - Balances team protection with broader system health
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- - Proposes structural improvements, not just coping mechanisms
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 20
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- role_modeling:
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- - id: sys_mgmt_role_1
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- text:
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- You want to invest in chaos engineering but your leadership sees it as
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- unnecessary risk. Meanwhile, cascading failures are becoming more
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- frequent.
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- context:
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- Your function has had 5 cascading failures in 6 months. Each post-mortem
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- identifies systemic issues but fixes are always local. Leadership wants
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- predictable delivery and sees intentional failure injection as
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- dangerous. You manage 3 teams that own core platform services.
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- simulationPrompts:
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- - How do you make the case for chaos engineering to sceptical
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- leadership?
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- - How would you implement it safely to build confidence?
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- - How do you develop systems thinking capabilities across your teams?
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- - What metrics would you use to demonstrate value?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Models systems thinking in leadership decisions
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- - Develops team capabilities for understanding complex systems
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- - Makes reasoning visible and transparent to stakeholders
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- - Proposes incremental approaches that build trust
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 20
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- exemplifying:
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- - id: sys_mgmt_exemp_1
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- text:
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- You are leading an organizational initiative to improve system
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- reliability, but teams have no shared language or practices for systems
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- thinking.
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- context:
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- You are responsible for a function of 50+ engineers across 8 teams.
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- Incident reviews reveal that most outages are caused by teams not
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- understanding cross-system impacts. There is no architectural governance
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- and teams have conflicting approaches to resilience.
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- simulationPrompts:
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- - How do you create organizational structures that promote systems
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- thinking?
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- - How do you balance local team optimization with broader system health?
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- - How do you develop a shared language for discussing system complexity?
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- - How do you handle complexity that spans multiple team boundaries?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Creates organizational structures for systems thinking
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- - Balances local and global optimization at scale
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- - Builds shared understanding of system complexity
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- - Takes a strategic, long-term approach to systemic improvement
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 20
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- followUps:
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- - How would you know if systems thinking maturity is improving?
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- The product team wants to add a feature that will increase revenue but
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- The feature is an AI-powered recommendation engine. Product estimates
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- 15% revenue increase. Your team estimates 4 months of work and ongoing
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- maintenance costs.
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- decompositionPrompts:
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- - What questions would you ask the product team?
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- - How would you break down the technical cost assessment?
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- - What factors would influence your recommendation?
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- - How would you present your analysis to stakeholders?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Balances business value against technical cost
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- - Considers ongoing maintenance and operational complexity
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- - Asks about success metrics and measurement approach
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- - Thinks about alternatives and build vs buy decisions
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 15
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- followUps:
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- - What if the CEO strongly favors this feature but your analysis
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- suggests otherwise?
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- - How would you handle if the revenue estimate turned out to be
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- Your company is considering entering a new market that requires
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- different compliance requirements. How would you approach the technical
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- evaluation?
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- context:
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- The new market is healthcare (HIPAA compliance). Current systems handle
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- financial data but were not designed for healthcare. Leadership wants a
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- go/no-go decision in 4 weeks.
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- decompositionPrompts:
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- - What stakeholders need to be involved in this assessment?
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- - How would you structure the technical gap analysis?
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- - What are the key decision points you need to surface?
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- - How would you communicate risk and uncertainty to leadership?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Identifies compliance, security, and data handling as separate
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- workstreams
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- - Involves legal, security, and product stakeholders appropriately
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- - Creates structured assessment with clear criteria
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- - Communicates uncertainty and risk levels clearly
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 15
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- followUps:
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- - What would change if you had 3 months instead of 4 weeks?
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- - How would you handle if different stakeholders had conflicting
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- - id: biz_mgmt_work_decomp_1
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- Your engineering organization needs to reduce costs by 20% while
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- context:
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- Budget constraints require significant cost reduction. You manage 3
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- teams with 18 engineers total. Current commitments include two major
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- decompositionPrompts:
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- - How would you identify cost reduction opportunities?
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- - How would you prioritize cuts while protecting critical work?
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- - How would you communicate changes to your teams?
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- - How would you ensure commitments are still achievable?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Analyzes costs systematically (infrastructure, tooling, headcount)
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- - Protects high-value work while cutting low-impact activities
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- - Communicates transparently with teams about constraints
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- - Renegotiates scope or timelines where necessary
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 15
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- followUps:
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- - What if leadership insists on no headcount changes but still needs 20%
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- savings?
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- - How would you handle if key team members leave due to uncertainty?
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- - id: biz_mgmt_pract_decomp_1
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- text:
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- The board is considering a major acquisition that would double your
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- diligence and integration plan?
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- decompositionPrompts:
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- - What technical areas would you prioritize in due diligence?
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- - How would you assess organizational and cultural compatibility?
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- - What integration models would you consider?
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- - How would you quantify risks and synergies for the board?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Evaluates architecture, tech debt, and platform compatibility
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- - Assesses talent retention risk and cultural differences
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- - Proposes realistic integration timeline and approach
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- - Presents findings with clear decision criteria for leadership
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 15
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- - How would you handle if the target's best engineers leave
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- decompositionPrompts:
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- - What information would you need to gather first?
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- - How would you break down the technical implementation?
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- - What are the biggest risks and how would you mitigate them?
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- - How would AI tools change your approach to building this faster?
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- - How would you prioritize if you had only 3 weeks instead?
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- - Asks clarifying questions about requirements before diving in
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- - Identifies data pipeline, storage, and visualization as separate
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- - Considers real-time vs near-real-time trade-offs
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- - Thinks about scalability and performance constraints
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 15
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- - What would you do differently if their data was in 5 different
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- - How would you handle if a key team member left mid-project?
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- - How would you decide what to extract first?
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- - How would you structure the team's work?
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- - What would success look like at each phase?
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- - Identifies domain boundaries as extraction points
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- - Plans for rollback and feature flags
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- - Considers team coordination and parallel workstreams
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- A critical project is at risk of missing its deadline, and stakeholders
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- The project was planned for 8 weeks but is now in week 6 with 40% of
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- - How would you prevent this situation in future projects?
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- - Gets accurate assessment from team without blame
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- - Presents realistic options with trade-offs (scope, time, resources)
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- - How would you establish alignment across teams?
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- - How would you handle competing priorities between teams?
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- - How would you track and communicate progress to executives?
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- - Creates clear roles, responsibilities, and decision rights
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- - Establishes lightweight coordination that doesn't slow teams
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- - Manages dependencies and resolves conflicts across teams
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- - Provides executive visibility without micromanagement
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- - How would you balance their learning with team productivity?
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- - How would AI tools accelerate their ramp-up on the new stack?
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- - How would you measure whether onboarding is successful?
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- - Structures onboarding in phases with clear milestones
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- - Considers both technical skills and team integration
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- - Protects team delivery while investing in new member
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- - Plans for feedback loops and adjustment
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- - What if they were struggling after 3 weeks?
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- - Separates technical disagreement from interpersonal conflict
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- - Creates structured decision-making process
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- - Ensures both parties feel heard and respected
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- chosen?
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- - How would you handle if this pattern repeats with the same
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- One of your team members is consistently underperforming despite
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- The engineer has been on the team for 8 months. They meet basic
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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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- - How would you assess whether this is a skill, will, or fit issue?
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- - What performance improvement approach would you take?
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- - How would you manage the impact on the rest of the team?
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- - What decision criteria would you use for next steps?
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- - Diagnoses root cause before choosing intervention
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- - Creates clear, measurable improvement plan with timeline
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- - Manages team dynamics while addressing individual performance
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- - Prepares for multiple outcomes including separation
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 15
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- - What if the engineer claims the expectations are unfair?
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- - How would you handle if the team wants you to act faster?
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- You need to grow your engineering organization from 25 to 50 engineers
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- over the next year. How would you approach this scaling challenge?
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- The company has secured Series B funding. Current team is strong but has
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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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- - How would you structure the hiring plan and timeline?
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- - What organizational structure would you build?
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- - How would you develop management capacity?
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- - How would you preserve culture while scaling?
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- - Creates phased hiring plan with clear milestones
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- - Designs org structure that scales (spans of control, team topology)
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- - Develops managers from within and hires experienced managers
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- - Explicitly addresses culture preservation and evolution
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- - How would you handle if existing senior ICs don't want to become
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- Your service experienced three outages in the past month, each from
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- context:
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- The outages were caused by database connection exhaustion, a failed
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- deployment, and an upstream dependency timeout. SLO is 99.9% and you're
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- decompositionPrompts:
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- - How would you categorize and analyze these incidents?
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- - What systematic improvements would you prioritize?
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- - How would you balance reliability investment with feature work?
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- - What would success look like 3 months from now?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Looks for patterns across incidents rather than treating in isolation
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- - Proposes both reactive fixes and proactive improvements
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- - Creates measurable reliability targets
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- - Considers observability and early warning systems
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 15
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- followUps:
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- - What if leadership is pressuring for more features over reliability
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- work?
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- - How would you structure the team's on-call rotation going forward?
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- text:
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- You're designing the disaster recovery strategy for a system that
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- processes customer financial transactions. Walk me through your
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- approach.
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- context:
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- The system handles $10M in daily transactions, uses AWS in us-east-1,
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- and currently has no cross-region capability. Budget for DR is $50K
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- annual.
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- decompositionPrompts:
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- - What are the key requirements you need to establish first?
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- - How would you structure the technical options analysis?
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- - What trade-offs would you present to stakeholders?
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- - How would you test and validate the DR plan?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Defines RTO/RPO requirements with business stakeholders
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- - Evaluates active-active vs active-passive vs pilot light approaches
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- - Balances cost against recovery capabilities
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- - Plans for regular testing and runbook maintenance
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 15
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- followUps:
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- - What would you do if a regional outage happened before DR was
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- complete?
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- - How would you handle if the $50K budget was cut in half?
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- managementQuestions:
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- working:
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- text:
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- Your on-call engineers are burning out due to frequent pages and
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- incident response. How would you improve the situation?
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- context:
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- The team is paged an average of 5 times per week outside business hours.
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- Two engineers have asked to leave on-call rotation. Incident response
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- often requires escalation because documentation is lacking.
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- decompositionPrompts:
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- - How would you analyze the current on-call burden?
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- - What changes to the on-call structure would you consider?
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- - How would you reduce incident frequency and impact?
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- - How would you sustain these improvements over time?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Analyzes incidents to identify patterns and preventable pages
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- - Considers rotation structure, compensation, and workload distribution
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- - Invests in runbooks, automation, and self-healing
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- - Creates sustainable practices rather than short-term fixes
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 15
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- followUps:
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- - What if leadership says there's no budget for additional on-call
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- support?
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- - How would you handle if the most experienced engineers refuse on-call?
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- text:
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- Your organization has grown to 20 services owned by different teams but
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- has no consistent approach to reliability. How would you establish
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- reliability practices at scale?
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- context:
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- Some teams have mature SLOs and incident response, others don't. Recent
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- cross-team incidents took too long to resolve due to unclear ownership.
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- Leadership wants to improve reliability organization-wide.
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- decompositionPrompts:
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- - How would you assess current reliability maturity across teams?
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- - What standards and practices would you establish?
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- - How would you drive adoption across teams with different contexts?
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- - How would you coordinate reliability during cross-team incidents?
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- lookingFor:
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- - Creates maturity model to meet teams where they are
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- - Establishes minimum standards while allowing team flexibility
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- - Provides enablement (tooling, templates) alongside requirements
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- - Defines clear escalation and coordination for cross-team issues
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- expectedDurationMinutes: 15
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- followUps:
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- - What if teams resist reliability requirements as overhead?
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- - How would you handle if different teams have conflicting SLO
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- definitions?