Capabilities Assessment

As an org leader, you're responsible for aligning your organization's goals with its internal capabilities, not just as they are now but as you can make them. This means you must assess how well people fit their current roles.

To do this assessment, create an org map and then apply these ratings:

Rating	Criteria
🟢	The person is in the right role for what the org needs
🟡	Unproven and evaluating over a maximum of 6 months
🔴	Gap between what the org needs and what we have today

To an org map like this:

Team	PM	EM	DS	Res	DE
Pillar	-	-	-	-	-
Team #1	-	-	-	-	-
Team #2	-	-	-	-	-

After identifying mismatches, you need to decide whether to rearrange people internally or recruit externally. If you're in a big organization, there's usually a good team to be constructed.

Consider Jim Keller's description of the David Museum:

There's a great museum in Venice and the front of the museum, there's these huge blocks of marble. 20 by 20 by 20. Michelangelo could see this beautiful sculpture in it. It was already there. The problem was removing the excess marble. So if you go into companies with 1000 employees, I guarantee you, there's a good team there. You don't have to hire anybody. When I was at AMD, I hardly hired anybody. We moved people around, we re-deployed people, but there were plenty of great people there.