January 14, 2026
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
Where do you want to be a year from now, and how can you get there?
As we enter 2026, it is a good time to evaluate and establish our engineering vision and strategy for the next year.
As managers or senior ICs, we are responsible for setting strategic goals and initiatives, but it is our teams that need to execute them. To do that effectively, they need to be bought in to the strategy: we want them to agree with our initiatives, and also proactively support and pursue them.
Building buy-in means ensuring there is a clear goal with realistic and meaningful outcomes.
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January 14, 2026
