Accountability without authority
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In this lesson
get commitments kept when you are nobody's manager.
Planned topics
- Make commitments explicit, written, and visible: who, what, by when.
- Agree them with the team's manager as well as the engineer.
- Use a regular, short program review where status is data, not opinion.
- Raise misses early and privately first; recognize delivery publicly.
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Demonstration
a program board with owner, date, and red/amber/green defined by rules (for example, red = critical-path date at risk).
Check your understanding
Why involve the engineer's manager in the commitment?
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They control priorities; without them the commitment competes silently with other work.
Practice
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