Career frameworks are always a valuable resource for engaging and developing engineers, but they become vital as your organization goes through rapid growth or operating changes.
Career frameworks provide employees with an opportunity to own their own career development. They also allow employers to make it clear what is expected of them in their current roles and the ones they’re aiming for in the future. These frameworks can take many forms and embedding one in your organization creates transparency of expectation in a structured, formal manner.
If your organization’s team topology has remained stable for a long period, it has no doubt gone through its “forming” phase and approached “norming” or “performing”.