Staff engineers and managers: a partnership
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In this lesson
separate Staff and management responsibilities so they support each other.
Planned topics
- Managers own people: hiring, growth, performance, team health.
- Staff engineers own technical direction and quality across teams; they do not assign people.
- Agree explicitly who decides what, and say it out loud to the teams.
- Competing for ownership of a team's roadmap is the classic failure; share context early instead.
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Demonstration
a two-column responsibility sketch (manager, Staff) for one Platform 2.0 decision, "adopt a shared pipeline", showing who sponsors, who decides, who executes.
Check your understanding
Who owns a team member's performance review?
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The manager, not the Staff engineer; you may give input.
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