Builders Leaders is a simple platform enabling closed community of builders (engineering, product & team) leaders grow by sharing experience and learning across organizational and physical borders.
In a repeating 2-weeks sprints (cycles) we solicit biggest challenges every builder faces, pair them with the most suitable leaders then consult in a 1:1 or panel mentoring sessions and persist takeaways in a collaborative buildersleaders/playbook.
We are open to new members, please request access to private section (sprint mailing list & playbook) by filling in this Typeform.
We do NOT distinguish between mentors and mentees. We believe that everyone can grow by understanding other's experiences.
With efficiency in mind, we prefer tools that are close to every builder
- Typeform surveys (challenges solicitation, mentors pairing)
- Zoom (mentoring sessions)
- Github (takeaway documentation)
- Slack (coordination, announcements)
Growing as a leader means constantly facing new challenges. In order to synchronize Builders Leaders mentoring with your current challenges we operate in repeating 2-weeks sprints.
The goal of each sprint is to resolve and document takeaways of all challenges the builders currently face and move forward.
In order to achieve this within 2 weeks we stick to a predefined schedule.
TODO: Re-draw to calendar-style schema.
| Step | When | Action | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thursday | Call for challenges | List of builders | List of challenges |
| 2 | Sunday | Call for mentors | List of challenges | Challenges paired with mentors Unpaired challenges |
| 3 | Monday | Call for sessions | Paired challenges | Scheduled sessions Opened documentation PRs |
| 4 | Tuesday - Friday | Mentoring sessions | Challenge notes | Challenge takeaways |
| 5 | Friday | Call for feedback | Session details | Session feedback |
| 6 | Saturday - Wednesday | Takeaway documentation | Opened documentation PR | Approved and merged PR |
When: Thursday evening
What: Each builder receives Typeform survey with a single question:
What leadership challenges do you currently face?
When: Sunday evening
What: Each builder receives Typeform survey with a list of challenges they can sign-up for as a mentor.
When: Monday evening
What: All challenges paired with mentors are converted into scheduled Zoom sessions.
In this phase a challenge PR in the collaborative buildersleaders/playbook is opened where challenge context and takeaways will be documented, reviewed, approved and merged.
When: Tuesday - Friday
What: Builder and mentor meets over Zoom to discuss the challenge.
Challenge context is documented in the opened PR.
When: Friday evening
What: Each builder and leader participating in the mentoring sessions receives Typeform survey with a feedback notes.
When: Saturday - Wednesday
What: Each builder participating in the mentoring session is asked to document the takeaways in the challenge PR.
PR needs to be approved by the mentor and curator before merging to master.
Builders Leaders is closed but free community.
Participation is conditioned by the following rules:
- Your primary motivation is learning and NOT hiring and/or job finding.
- You proactively document and/or review challenge's context and takeaways.
- You are active in proposing challenges and/or offering mentoring.