Stage 2 · Lesson 1 of 8
What ownership means
means taking responsibility for an outcome from start to finish, including the parts nobody assigned to you. That covers the , the , the docs, the bugs that follow, and telling people it shipped. A mid-level engineer finishes the .
An owner makes sure the problem is actually solved. It is the practical form of the larger from the previous stage. Ownership also means speaking up early when something is at risk, instead of hoping it works out.
Common trapconfusing ownership with doing everything yourself. An owner makes sure the outcome happens, and that often means getting others to do parts of it.
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Resources for this stage
Start with· follow one of these
- BookFreeSoftware Engineering at Google
Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright · Intermediate
The chapters on testing, CI and large-scale changes: fixing problems at team scale
- BookPaidThe Pragmatic Programmer
Hunt and Thomas · Intermediate · About $45
Automation, broken windows and orthogonality: the habits behind leverage