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I got the maximum when selecting just the first two options, and that’s just in my role as a regular SWE. I used to be a DA and my responsibilities were much more varied, so something seems off here.

The tool could benefit from some explanation as to the meaning of its calculations.

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You can see the tool used in the context of the related blog post (also linked to from the bottom of the standalone tool) https://www.leggetter.co.uk/2016/02/03/defining-developer-re...

Hmmm perhaps the speed-o-meter is the wrong visualisation though - it makes people want to have the dial far across to the right to have "maximum achievement".

Could be a better visualisation would be a spider plot? Something like Medium.com's engineering growth framework - https://snowflake.medium.com/ / https://github.com/Medium/snowflake

It's a good point.

The speedometer is just:

- left: Evangelism - right: Advocacy

The Medium visualisations are nice and would be an interesting/useful way of visualising Back in 2016 I used https://epochjs.github.io/epoch/

yes speedometer is a bad visualization, it confused me and I'm a full time dev advocate

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