L1 Engineer — Promotion & Performance Evaluation Workbook
Scoring scale: 0–5 (decimals allowed)
Practice Summary
| Guild | Management Practice | Criteria | Self Score (%) | Assessor Score (%) | Delta (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Executive Guild | Strategy Management | 1 | — | — | — |
| Executive Guild | Values Alignment | 3 | — | — | — |
| Executive Guild | Vision & Mission Alignment | 1 | — | — | — |
| Sales Guild | Stakeholder Engagement | 3 | — | — | — |
| Delivery Guild | Business Analysis | 3 | — | — | — |
| Delivery Guild | Consulting Management | 3 | — | — | — |
| Delivery Guild | Forward Deployed Engineering | 4 | — | — | — |
| Delivery Guild | Project Management | 3 | — | — | — |
| Delivery Guild | User Experience | 2 | — | — | — |
| Technology Guild | Agentic Engineering | 4 | — | — | — |
| Technology Guild | Application Architecture | 2 | — | — | — |
| Technology Guild | Data Engineering | 3 | — | — | — |
| Technology Guild | DevOps Management | 3 | — | — | — |
| Technology Guild | Platform Architecture | 4 | — | — | — |
| Technology Guild | Security Engineering | 3 | — | — | — |
| Technology Guild | Software Engineering | 4 | — | — | — |
| Administration Guild | HR Management | 3 | — | — | — |
| Administration Guild | Knowledge Management | 1 | — | — | — |
Detailed Criteria
Executive Guild
Strategy Management
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-STM01 | Knows Calab’s current strategic priorities and where their assigned work fits within them. | ___ | ___ |
Values Alignment
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-VAL01 | **Trust** — honours commitments, raises mistakes and blockers early, and handles client and company information with care. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-VAL02 | **Impact** — focuses effort where it matters: confirms the purpose of assigned work and flags tasks that don’t serve it. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-VAL03 | **Innovation** — looks for better ways to do their own tasks, suggesting and adopting improvements rather than defaulting to habit. | ___ | ___ |
Vision & Mission Alignment
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-VMA01 | Can explain Calab’s mission — affording humanity time to be inspired by transforming legacy operations with enterprise AI — and how their current work contributes to it. | ___ | ___ |
Sales Guild
Stakeholder Engagement
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-SGM01 | Communicates clearly and professionally with clients in meetings, chat, and written updates, matching Calab’s tone. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-SGM02 | Represents work status honestly — flags risks, blockers, and delays early to their lead rather than surprising the client. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-SGM03 | Builds trust in client interactions: prepares for meetings, follows through on commitments, escalates questions they can’t answer. | ___ | ___ |
Delivery Guild
Business Analysis
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-BAM01 | Reads and correctly interprets requirements and acceptance criteria before building, confirming ambiguities with the author. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-BAM02 | Records what they built against the requirement so acceptance can be verified without re-discovery. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-BAM03 | Raises requirement gaps or contradictions discovered during implementation instead of resolving them silently. | ___ | ___ |
Consulting Management
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-CM01 | Works effectively within a client engagement — understands its goals, their role in it, and delivers on their commitments. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-CM02 | Adapts quickly to client ways of working — tools, ceremonies, standards — with minimal disruption. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-CM03 | Maintains accurate, timely records the engagement depends on: time tracking, task status, handover notes. | ___ | ___ |
Forward Deployed Engineering
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-FDE01 | Learns the client’s business process they are supporting — who does what, with which systems, and why it matters — before building changes to it. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-FDE02 | Implements assigned integration and configuration tasks in the client’s environment, composing existing platform capabilities before writing new code. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-FDE03 | Verifies changes with the people who use them — demonstrates in the target environment, records acceptance evidence, iterates on feedback. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-FDE04 | Raises gaps between the documented solution design and field reality to the responsible engineer rather than guessing or working around them. | ___ | ___ |
Project Management
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-PM01 | Keeps their task status current in the project’s tracking system so plans reflect reality. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-PM02 | Estimates their assigned tasks honestly, tracks against the estimate, and raises variances early. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-PM03 | Knows their dependencies in the project plan — what they’re waiting on and who is waiting on them. | ___ | ___ |
User Experience
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-UXD01 | Builds user-facing changes that follow the solution’s established design patterns and components, keeping the experience consistent. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-UXD02 | Checks their changes from the user’s point of view before handover — realistic data, complete workflows, accessibility basics. | ___ | ___ |
Technology Guild
Agentic Engineering
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-AIE01 | Uses approved AI coding assistants and agents for day-to-day tasks, and reviews, tests, and understands all generated code before submitting it as their own work. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-AIE02 | Provides effective prompts and context — specs, code, examples — to get useful output from AI tools, iterating when output misses. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-AIE03 | Identifies common failure modes in AI output — hallucinated APIs, insecure patterns, licence-risk code — and corrects them before merge. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-AIE04 | Follows Calab’s AI usage policies: approved tools only, no confidential or client data into unapproved systems. | ___ | ___ |
Application Architecture
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-AAM01 | Can explain Calab’s internal application landscape — which system is the source of truth for projects, services, documents, and finance — and keeps records where they belong. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-AAM02 | Builds small automations and integrations between internal tools using approved patterns, documenting what they connect. | ___ | ___ |
Data Engineering
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-DAT01 | Writes and modifies queries and simple transformations correctly, verifying results against expected outputs before use. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-DAT02 | Follows the solution’s data model and naming standards when adding or changing fields, tables, or schemas. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-DAT03 | Works with client data only in approved environments and datasets; never copies production data to unapproved locations. | ___ | ___ |
DevOps Management
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-DVO01 | Uses the team’s CI/CD pipelines correctly — knows what stages run, reads failures, and fixes their own broken builds. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-DVO02 | Deploys changes to non-production environments following the documented process, verifying success and rolling back under direction. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-DVO03 | Investigates incidents on their assigned components using logs and monitoring under direction, documenting findings. | ___ | ___ |
Platform Architecture
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-PAM01 | Builds within the platform’s architectural standards — approved patterns, services, repositories — and asks when standards are unclear. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-PAM02 | Can explain the high-level architecture of the solutions they work on: main components, data flow, and hosting. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-PAM03 | Flags when a task appears to conflict with documented architecture or standards instead of silently working around it. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-PAM04 | Provisions and changes cloud resources only through the approved infrastructure-as-code workflow — never manual changes to managed environments. | ___ | ___ |
Security Engineering
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-SEC01 | Handles secrets, credentials, and client data per policy — never commits secrets; uses approved vaults and identity. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-SEC02 | Applies secure coding basics in their changes — input validation, parameterised queries, least-privilege defaults — and fixes security review findings. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-SEC03 | Triages or escalates dependency and vulnerability alerts on their assigned repos within agreed timeframes. | ___ | ___ |
Software Engineering
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-SEM01 | Delivers assigned, well-scoped code changes that build, pass existing tests, and merge after review with only expected rework. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-SEM02 | Writes or updates unit tests for the code they change, following the team’s established test patterns. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-SEM03 | Uses the team’s standard toolchain correctly — version control, branching, code review workflow — with occasional guidance. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-SEM04 | Documents their changes clearly: commit messages, PR descriptions, and comments that explain non-obvious decisions. | ___ | ___ |
Administration Guild
HR Management
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-HRM01 | Submits accurate timesheets by the deadline each cycle — time against the right engagement codes — correcting discrepancies when flagged. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-HRM02 | Plans and requests leave ahead of time, checking impact on project commitments with their lead before booking. | ___ | ___ |
| L1-HRM03 | Keeps their career workbook evidence current and completes mandatory training by its due date. | ___ | ___ |
Knowledge Management
| ID | Criterion | Self Score | Assessment Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1-KNM01 | Captures reusable learnings from their work in the handbook — fixes, gotchas, how-tos — following its authoring conventions. | ___ | ___ |