Alexia Bowers-Snyder

Alexia Bowers-Snyder

Board

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".

  • Partnership Steward (for Board)

    Purpose:

    The circle has the requisite partners and partner relationships for its needs and context

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.

  • Purpose Guide

    Purpose:

    Guide the organization towards its higher purpose

    Accountabilities:

    • Monitoring the @General_Company_Circle's overall stewardship and steering of the organization towards deeper expressions of its purpose
    • Identifying and proposing updates to the purpose of the organization when appropriate
    • Championing the Organization's purpose and key brands in broader networks, and making purpose-aligned connections when useful and appropriate

Design and Engineering

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

  • Architect

    for frontend

    Purpose:

    Sustainable, healthy architecture for the long run

    Accountabilities:

    • Planning and executing large infrastructure investments and improvements.
    • Reviewing PRs and providing feedback to Developers on request
    • Providing feedback on suitability of developer-initiated infra stories
    • Blocking or escalating work on any developer-initiated infra stories that seem harmful or overly wasteful
    • Providing ad-hoc technical leadership as opportunities present themselves
    • Integrating objections from @Product Vision to potential investments for improving development capacity, before committing to those investments
    • Supporting @Developer in using defined source control systems effectively and efficiently
    • Soliciting and integrating feedback from other @Architect role fillers on design and execution of large infrastructure changes
    • Maintaining and prioritizing the issues in the Linear Infra Work project
    • Publishing architectural guidelines for @Developer to follow
    • Reviewing pull-requests for adherence to architectural guidelines

  • Circle Lead

    Purpose:

    Build the software the world needs to unleash evolution and empower purpose in organizations

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.

  • Developer

    Purpose:

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

    Accountabilities:

    • Participating in team processes defined by @Agilator
    • Following architectural guidelines published by @Architect
    • 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

  • Developer Onboarding & Offboarding

    Purpose:

    Incoming developers are up and running, outgoing developers are disconnected

    Accountabilities:

    • Creating a checklist of onboarding activities for new developers within the circle
    • Creating a checklist of offboarding activities for developers leaving the organization
    • Ushering new developers through the onboarding checklist
    • Coordinating the disconnection of outgoing developers according to the offboarding checklist

  • Feature Owner

    Purpose:

    Features customers love

    Accountabilities:

    • Gathering requirements and context for owned features from stakeholders and customer feedback
    • Breaking down owned features into well-specified, implementable stories
    • Supporting stories with mockups, UX direction, or additional specification as needed
    • Coordinating development and rollout of owned features
    • Acceptance testing delivered stories against feature intent

  • Senior Review

    Purpose:

    Nothing ships without human eyes on it

    Accountabilities:

    • Reviewing agent-generated pull requests for correctness, quality, and architectural fit
    • Desk-checking fixes locally before approving for deployment
    • Providing feedback to improve agent output quality over time
    • Evaluating delivered bug fixes on request and accepting or rejecting as appropriate

  • Technical Advisor

    Purpose:

    Business and product roles have developer insight when planning product strategy

    Accountabilities:

    • Advising on ways to get more value out of upcoming features on request
    • Estimating required development effort for potential features upon request of @Product Vision or @Business Manager

  • UX Design

    Purpose:

    Consistent, elegant, user-friendly interfaces

    Accountabilities:

    • Creating or sourcing design concepts, sketches, and artifacts as needed to support @Product Vision, @Developer, and @Feature Owner
    • Reviewing stories in development and providing style and usability feedback
    • Recommending high value UX improvements
    • Creating and iterating on interactive mockups during cycle preparation
    • Incorporating accessibility concerns into designs
    • Writing in-app copy focused on user experience

Developer

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

  • Circle Lead

    Purpose:

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

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.

  • Facilitator

    Purpose:

    Circle governance and operational practices aligned with the Constitution.

    Accountabilities:

    • Facilitating the Circle’s regular Tactical Meetings
    • Facilitating the Circle’s Governance Process
    • Triggering new elections for the Circle’s elected Roles after each election term expires
    • Auditing a Sub-Circle’s meetings and records on request and declaring a Process Breakdown if one is discovered

General Operations

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".

  • 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 agile software development process and facilitating the relevant meetings
    • Configuring Linear to align with and clarify our agile software development processes

  • Design and Engineering

    Purpose:

    Build the software the world needs to unleash evolution and empower purpose in organizations

    Domains:

    • All GlassFrog-related code & technical infrastructure
    • GlassFrog's feature & bug tracking systems & data

    Accountabilities:

    • Developing, maintaining, and hosting the GlassFrog application
    • Triaging usage-limiting issues in GlassFrog and fielding tactical database updates as-needed
    • Conducting in-depth fit-for-role interviews with well-qualified technical candidates
    • Communicating the delivery of features and bugfixes to @Ribbiting Communications
    • Maintaining product security and privacy in accordance with best practices, and responding to privacy/security requests from @Product Support
    • Granting @L2 Support super admin access in GF
    • Translating roadmap priorities into shipped product features
    • Advising on ways to get more value out of upcoming features on request
    • Translating roadmap priorities into shipped product features

  • Partnership Steward

    Purpose:

    The circle has the requisite partners and partner relationships for its needs and context

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.

  • 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

  • Roadmap Manager

    Purpose:

    Breakdown the roadmap into manageable chunks

    Accountabilities:

    • Translating the roadmap set by @Product Vision into initiatives and projects in Linear