Managing up
Ask, rationale, value
Make an upward request easy to evaluate.
Asking your manager for something.
The shape
- Ask
- Rationale
- Value
A worked example
- Ask
- I would like approval for two additional engineers.
- Rationale
- The current team cannot complete the migration in the committed timeline.
- Value
- It reduces the risk of missing the customer commitment.
Built from
An application framework is a package. These are the reusable shapes inside it.
Mostly serves Message, and reaches into Intent.
A framework tells you what shape the answer takes. It cannot tell you whether shape is what you are short of, and for most people it is not. Which one is yours, and whether a framework is the right instrument at all, is what a Discovery Call is for.
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