When Do We Hold an Individual Accountable?
Explore the criteria for holding an individual accountable within engineering teams. Understand the importance of clearly defined contributions, setting expectations, and encouraging team members to ask for help when facing challenges. This lesson helps you identify individual accountability while maintaining team responsibility for project success.
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Again, let’s begin with the answer to the question in this lesson’s title: when the individual’s contribution is clearly defined and the expectations are clearly set.
It’s often easy to identify when a team member didn’t get the story done in time, which in turn created a cascading series of missed deadlines leading to the project missing its overall deadline. Remember, however, that software development is still a team sport—even if it’s clear ...