By modeling the behavior of your engineers, managers can boost execution and raise the bar of their whole team.
Execution is one of the main factors that drive consistent engineering success, but raising execution standards can prove tricky for managers.
Behavior modeling is the practice of instilling certain behaviors through effective use of incentives in order to achieve a certain goal. Done right, it’s a powerful set of tools that can help to ensure consistently excellent execution.
What kinds of behavior can be modeled?
As engineering leaders, we are constantly thinking of ways to maximize our teams’ impact: we may opt to adopt iterative and incremental development in order to improve prioritization and velocity, we incentivize risk-taking in order to enable more innovation, we promote inclusive behaviors in order to improve psychological safety and collaboration.
