Purpose: Build the software the world needs to unleash evolution and empower purpose in organizations
  • Agilator

    Purpose:

    Team processes that facilitate awesomeness

    Accountabilities:

    • Evolving defined processes as productivity improvements are identified
    • Scheduling and maintaining meetings to support the agile development processes defined by @Agilator
    • Defining and maintaining agile software development processes within @Design and Engineering, including recurring meeting agendas
    • Coordinating the ShapeUp process including maintaining the ShapeUp calendar and facilitating the ShapeUp meetings
  • Developer

    Purpose:

    Satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of truly valuable software

    Accountabilities:

    • Monitoring and triaging issues reported in #bugs-og that are urgent or likely resulted from work you as an individual developer introduced
    • Reviewing open pull requests at the request of other @Developer role-fillers
    • Advising @L2 Support on technical fixes for customer issues
    • Notifying @Ribbiting Communications when functionality has been deployed
    • Orienting new @Developer role fillers on GlassFrog functionality upon request
    • Testing new functionality before deploying it to production
    • Prioritizing critical bugs above other new stories, then fast-tracking fixes and shepherding them to resolution once pulled
    • Participating in team processes defined by @Agilator
    • Following architectural guidelines published by @Architect
    • Deploying functionality that they have merged into master to production, or coordinating the deployment and the running of necessary scripts for said functionality within 2 business days of merging it in
    • Attempting to reproduce bugs at the request of @QA
    • Implementing GlassFrog user stories, bug fixes, and chores to improve the product and GlassFrog operations
    • Adding infra stories to get rid of dead code as observed
    • Sharing development challenges with other @Developer role fillers as challenges arise in their development work
    • Delivering bugs and stories in a testable state before triggering @QA to test them
    • Providing projections on availability to pull critical bugs on request
    • Coordinating with @Beta Feature Owner when working on bugs or features that are currently in beta
  • Quick Win Cowboy

    Purpose:

    Ecstatic customers through rapid development of highly visible low-hanging fruit

    Accountabilities:

    • Reviewing concept library and other feedback to identify features/bugs that have high value and low effort
    • Developing stories and other specifications needed to place stories of identified features/bugs in the development backlog
    • Reviewing completed stories against specifications to pass or fail
  • Requirements Wrangler

    Purpose:

    Gathering and ordering needs from GlassFrog feedback channels

    Accountabilities:

    • Providing a regular summary of high priority customer needs to @Product Vision and @Design and Engineering to inform prioritization of the roadmap and backlog
    • Providing a means for customers to provide input on prioritization of possible features
    • Flagging feedback and requests from key stakeholders
    • Reviewing and collecting early pipeline customer feature and feedback requests into an organized system to provide visibility into customer needs
  • Story Writer

    Purpose:

    Well written stories

    Accountabilities:

    • Writing user stories upon request of circle members
  • UX Design

    Purpose:

    Consistent, elegant, user-friendly interfaces

    Accountabilities:

    • Creating or sourcing design concepts, sketches, and artifacts as needed to support @Product Vision and @Developer
    • Coordinating with external resources to augment capacity as needed
    • Reviewing stories in development and providing style and usability feedback on request
    • Recommending high value UX improvements
  • UX Writer

    Purpose:

    Consistent, clear, and friendly copy throughout the GlassFrog app

    Accountabilities:

    • Writing in-app copy focused on user experience
Purpose:

Our Essence is: GlassFrog is the morning sun, breaking dawn with radiant clarity.

Our Blessing is to provide the spark of insight that ignites the fire of evolution.

Our Mission is to transform every organization into a sanctuary of clarity, passion, and purpose.

Our Message is: Organizational life can be so much better. Lack of clarity is the root of organizational pain, and you can’t optimize what isn’t clear to start with. Creating organizational clarity enables change, and change enables evolution; and once you’ve unleashed evolution in your company, progress isn't just possible, it's unstoppable.

Note: GlassFrog uses the purpose discovery framework and four aspects of purpose from Tim Kelley's book "True Purpose".

  • Partner Meetups

    Purpose:

    Partners convening, connecting, and collaborating in conducive physical and virtual spaces

    Accountabilities:

    • Scheduling regular dates and locations to convene partners for in-person gatherings ("Partner Retreats")
    • Sourcing and configuring rental properties for Partner Retreats, including booking lodging for partner prospects as well upon request of @Partner Prospector
    • Scheduling and facilitating regular "Partner Meetings" to allow space for partner-level sharing, requests, and explorations
  • Partner Prospector

    for Technical Candidates

    Purpose:

    The right partners joining us, at the right time, in the right relationship, setup to succeed

    Accountabilities:

    • Screening inbound partner applications and candidate referrals, and proactively sourcing additional candidates as-needed
    • Planning and structuring in-person visits for appropriate partner candidates; publishing intended activities prior to such visits; and booking time with relevant partners, including at least one @Partnership Steward to further discuss the organization's purpose and partnership structure
    • Shepherding candidates through the courtship process, and orienting them to the organization's key agreements, processes, and systems
    • Assessing and proposing a compensation level and other key terms for a partnership grant offer when appropriate, and extending approved offers to candidates
Purpose: Partners convening, connecting, and collaborating in conducive physical and virtual spaces
  • Circle Lead

    Purpose:

    Partners convening, connecting, and collaborating in conducive physical and virtual spaces

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.