Outcomes
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Scale an Engineering Team from 5 to 20
5 milestones · 24 weeks
Scale an engineering team from 5 to 20 people — the hardest management transition in software. The skills that made you effective at 5 will actively harm you at 20. Every milestone here is about replacing personal relationships with systems, and replacing your presence with documented authority.
Complete a Full Performance Review Cycle
3 milestones · 12 weeks
Run end-to-end reviews: calibration, written assessments, delivery, and follow-through.
Ship a Team Charter and Ways of Working
3 milestones · 8 weeks
Write, get buy-in, and operate by a team charter for 90+ days.
Build a Hiring Funnel from Scratch
3 milestones · 12 weeks
Design and run a hiring process from JD to offer for 3+ roles successfully.
Operate as a Staff Engineer
5 milestones · 20 weeks
Staff Engineer is the most misunderstood title in the industry. Many companies hand out the title for tenure or as a retention tool, without the person ever doing Staff-level work. This outcome's proof standard is about the WORK, not the title — every milestone tests for influence without authority, the hardest skill at this level. The defining shift from Senior to Staff is scope: a Senior engineer is excellent within a defined problem. A Staff engineer identifies which problems matter before anyone assigns them, and influences outcomes across teams they do not manage.
Ship a Product from 0 to 1 as PM
3 milestones · 16 weeks
Take a product from idea to public launch with measurable user adoption.
Complete SHRM-CP Certification
3 milestones · 16 weeks
Pass the SHRM Certified Professional exam.
Reduce Team Time-to-Merge by 50%
0 milestones · 12 weeks
Diagnose and fix the bottlenecks in your team's code review process to halve average PR time-to-merge — before and after metrics required.
Onboard 5 Engineers in 90 Days
0 milestones · 13 weeks
Hire and onboard 5 engineers to production-contributing productivity within 90 days using a documented onboarding program.
Deliver a Major Project On Time and On Scope
0 milestones · 16 weeks
Lead a cross-functional project from scoping to launch, hitting the original timeline and scope commitments.
Run a Successful Product Launch
0 milestones · 10 weeks
Own and execute a product launch from pre-launch to post-launch metrics — press, signups, and adoption targets documented.
Complete Product Management Certification
0 milestones · 12 weeks
Earn an accredited PM certification (AIPMM CPM, Pragmatic Institute, or equivalent) with exam result as proof.
Build a Product Roadmap (Adopted by Engineering)
0 milestones · 6 weeks
Write and present a 12-month product roadmap that engineering formally commits to — adoption confirmation required as proof.
Conduct 50 User Research Interviews
0 milestones · 16 weeks
Plan, run, and synthesize insights from 50 structured user research interviews with documented themes and decisions made.
Become VP Engineering (First Time)
0 milestones · 52 weeks
Earn or be promoted to your first VP Engineering role, with documented scope: team size, budget, and reporting line.
Become CTO (First Time)
0 milestones · 52 weeks
Earn your first CTO title at a funded company or venture-backed startup — offer letter or board resolution as proof.
Build a Company OKR System
0 milestones · 16 weeks
Design, implement, and run a full OKR cycle across a company — from objective-setting to quarterly review and scored results.
Lead a Company Through a Pivot
0 milestones · 24 weeks
Facilitate and execute a strategic pivot — documented with before/after strategy, team communication, and outcome metrics.
Build a Board Presentation Cadence
0 milestones · 36 weeks
Design and run 3 consecutive quarterly board presentations with documented board feedback and action items resolved.
Build a 4-Day Onboarding Program
0 milestones · 8 weeks
Design and run a structured 4-day onboarding program with documented schedule, materials, and new-hire completion rate.
Design a Compensation Framework
0 milestones · 10 weeks
Build a job-level compensation framework with bands, review cadence, and market data — approved by leadership.
Resolve a Major Team Conflict (Documented)
0 milestones · 6 weeks
Facilitate resolution of a significant interpersonal or structural team conflict with documented outcome and follow-through.
Build a Remote Culture Playbook
0 milestones · 8 weeks
Write and adopt a remote culture playbook — async norms, meeting cadence, social rituals — with team sign-off and 90-day usage log.
Implement a Project Management System
0 milestones · 6 weeks
Select, configure, and train a team to use a PM system (Linear, Jira, Notion) — adoption metrics 90 days after launch.
Build an Operations Playbook
0 milestones · 8 weeks
Document every repeating operational process for a function — runbook, checklist, owner, and escalation path — adopted by the team.
Complete Six Sigma Green Belt
0 milestones · 16 weeks
Pass a Six Sigma Green Belt examination and complete a DMAIC project with measurable process improvement documented.
Build a Customer Success Function
0 milestones · 16 weeks
Design, hire, and launch a customer success function with NPS baseline, playbooks, and 90-day retention improvement data.
Lead an Engineering Team for the First Time
6 milestones · 16 weeks
Transition from individual contributor to engineering manager. Your output is now your team's output — not code you wrote. This 16-week outcome maps the hardest career transition in software engineering.