Influence can be seen as the result of trust your team has towards you. This trust is not built through some secret, 5-step framework but by the compounding result of small actions you bake into your process.
Listen to people, help them, and work towards mutual instead of personal goals, such as a successful release, a new feature, or a refactoring.
I'm interested in understanding, when we talk about the impact on people, what level of senior engineer is required, and the collaboration you mentioned in the context that more is achieved than when working alone.
A senior should be independent in their work, but when collaborating, it is no longer independent work but teamwork. So, you might receive feedback that you're not independent enough in your work.
I'm curious, where is the boundary between independence and lack of independence in work?
How can I ensure that I remain independent in my work while collaborating with others, without it turning into dependency and needing to ask others for everything?
Influence can be seen as the result of trust your team has towards you. This trust is not built through some secret, 5-step framework but by the compounding result of small actions you bake into your process.
Listen to people, help them, and work towards mutual instead of personal goals, such as a successful release, a new feature, or a refactoring.
Great stuff, Ryan! 👏
> Listen to people, help them
Agreed, reciprocity is a powerful thing. Helping others can expand your influence
I'm interested in understanding, when we talk about the impact on people, what level of senior engineer is required, and the collaboration you mentioned in the context that more is achieved than when working alone.
A senior should be independent in their work, but when collaborating, it is no longer independent work but teamwork. So, you might receive feedback that you're not independent enough in your work.
I'm curious, where is the boundary between independence and lack of independence in work?
How can I ensure that I remain independent in my work while collaborating with others, without it turning into dependency and needing to ask others for everything?
Collaboration is important. This means discussing technical direction and high-level design.
Implementation details in most cases should be something you can carry out independently without guidance.
Of course there's still collaboration in diff review, but you shouldn't get blocked by straightforward features.
what tool do you use to draw the diagrams?
I use Excalidraw, it’s an open source diagramming tool: https://excalidraw.com/
Great article! ✅💯🥇
Thank you!