Name The Gap Between Your Role And The Next Level

Progression in technology is rarely blocked by a missing tool. It is usually one gap in scope, ownership, visible impact, or influence across teams.

• Scope: you deliver tasks, the next level owns a system end to end

• Ownership: you raise risks, the next level decides and is accountable

• Impact: you ship features, the next level can state the business result

• Influence: you are trusted in your team, the next level is trusted across teams

Write the title you want next and two things people in that role do that you currently do not.

Choose the single gap that appears most often in the roles you want, and name one piece of work in the next quarter that would close part of it.