X.6.2 · Skill in Leadership and ownership

Accountability

Owning outcomes, including mistakes.

Accountability means caring whether the work achieved its goal, not only whether it shipped. It includes admitting mistakes early. Teams trust people who own results.

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Resources

bookStart here
Postmortem culture: learning from failure (Site Reliability Engineering, chapter 15) ↗
Google SRE · 10 min
Blameless postmortems: writing up what happened so the system improves, not so someone gets blamed.
talkStart here
Being glue ↗
Tanya Reilly · 22 min
The coordination work that makes projects succeed, and how to do it without it harming your career.

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