L3 Lead Engineer — Promotion & Performance Evaluation Workbook

Scoring scale: 0–5 (decimals allowed)

Practice Summary

GuildManagement PracticeCriteriaSelf Score (%)Assessor Score (%)Delta (%)
Sales GuildStakeholder Engagement Management3
Delivery GuildBusiness Analysis Management6
Delivery GuildConsulting Management10
Delivery GuildProject Management5
Technology GuildPlatform Architecture Management2
Technology GuildSoftware Engineering Management7
Technology GuildSolution Engineering Management8

Detailed Criteria

Sales Guild

Stakeholder Engagement Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L3-SGM01Exercises substantial personal responsibility and autonomy.______
L3-SGM03Acts as a team lead on large engagements taking ownership of the project outcome and quality. Plans own and teams work to meet given objectives and processes. Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving and mentors team members to follow this/her approach.______
L3-SGM04Assists practice members in planning work, meeting goals and solving problems.______

Delivery Guild

Business Analysis Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L3-BAM01Leads and manages the creation and execution of project technical budget and scope. Discusses project scope and budget with the customer and directs project scope be to able to be implemented on time and budget without sacrificing quality.______
L3-BAM02Actively seeks and creates opportunities for further work within the current work streams business unit.______
L3-BAM03Participates in creation of assets for the practice portfolio.______
L3-BAM04Prescribes applicable standards, methods, tools and applications to consultant teams. Maintains an awareness of new technologies and their application and actively contributes to the development of productivity tools and assets.______
L3-BAM05Selects and refines development processes and practices for projects.______
L3-BAM06Assists in the creation of new development processes and practices.______

Consulting Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L3-CM01Provides mentoring and assistance to staff for time management, work planning and problem solving. Able to guide and advise across multiple engagements. Guide and assist team members.______
L3-CM02Contributes to the internal discussion forums ensuring engineers stay up to date with the latest direction of Microsoft products and trends in technology.______
L3-CM03Considered to be a thought leader in his/her or her technology group of expertise.______
L3-CM04Able to review technical documentation and solutions across multiple engagements related to technology group of expertise.______
L3-CM05Excellent interpersonal communication skills. Confident and persuasive presenter.______
L3-CM06Provide heavy pre-sales support for opportunities that relate to technology group of consultant’s expertise.______
L3-CM07Review functional specifications, acting as an advocate for the customer.______
L3-CM08Understand the business drivers through the sales process, assisting Account Director.______
L3-CM09Can run requirements gathering workshops and translate into user stories.______
L3-CM10Able to influence and guide stakeholder decision making. Has a firm grasp of business value and can develop clear business cases.______

Project Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L3-PM01Actively contributes to cross-practice alignment initiatives and artefacts______
L3-PM02Is an advocate at all times for CA Labs to internal and external parties. Maintains a high level of professionalism at all times.______
L3-PM03Contributes to onboarding by referring people, being part of interviews, or improving technical interview processes.______
L3-PM04Evidence of significant contribution to internal technical forums and recognition by peers as a technical subject matter expert. Contribution can be facilitated through CA Labs internal forums such as confluence articles, blog articles, monthly retrospectives or equivalent customer facing forums.______
L3-PM05two new blog articles per year, and/or one external user group presentation every 1 years______

Technology Guild

Platform Architecture Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L3-PAM01Can create physical, technology and logical architectural diagrams for solutions likely to utilise the consultants technology expertise. Can create high standard business modelling artefacts such as Activity Models, Use-Case Models and Class Models.______
L3-PAM02Can create and apply architectural principles.______

Software Engineering Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L3-SEM01Contributes to standards for architecture and design, code, testing and documentation.______
L3-SEM02Codes, fixes, and documents large and complex systems and system enhancements from supplied requirements, using agreed standards and tools.______
L3-SEM03Takes part in reviews of own work and can conduct full code reviews of others.______
L3-SEM04Writes complex unit tests for developed components.______
L3-SEM05Assists other team members in resolving complex development and design problems.______
L3-SEM06Understands the fundamental principles of development and design of more than one technology group or a deep understanding of one technology group.______
L3-SEM07Has knowledge and experience in resolving to common and uncommon design and development problems in more than one technology group or deep knowledge and experience in one technology group.______

Solution Engineering Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L3-SOL01Can read and understand standard design documents for complex distributed solutions.______
L3-SOL02Can create task lists and estimates from standard design documents for complex solutions. Can create high quality design documents for complex solutions.______
L3-SOL03Can assist other consultants with the creation of design documents for complex solutions in this/her consultant’s area of expertise. Reviews the estimates and task lists of others.______
L3-SOL04Can document and describe the relationship between different entities within a single product or application. Can translate user stories into solution designs.______
L3-SOL05Contributes material to internal Technical Quality assets.______
L3-SOL06Selects and prescribes design patterns, industry standards and development practices for team members.______
L3-SOL07Heavily assists team members in understanding and participating in development activities such as stand-up and bug bashes.______
L3-SOL08Understands the common challenges of at least two industries (e.g. Financial services, state government, Resources)______