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+# Alignment
+
+## Controls
+
+These are the mechanisms that I use to align with my people.
+
+### Metrics
+
+Outcomes while being flexible around how they are acheived.
+
+### Visions
+
+Long-term direction with short-term flexibility.
+
+### Strategies
+
+Shared understanding of our current constraints and how we'll address them.
+
+### Organization design
+
+Coordination around the development of the wider organization within the context of subgroups.
+
+### Head count and transfers
+
+How orginizational priorities align across teams.
+
+### Roadmaps
+
+Problem selection and solution validation.
+
+### Performance reviews
+
+Culture and recognition.
+
+## Degress of alignment
+
+For each control we'll have a degree of alignment based on the context and relationship.
+
+### I'll do this
+
+Stuff I will be responsible for doing myself.
+
+### Preview
+
+Stuff I want to be involved with early and often to help be on the same page and redoing work.
+
+### Review
+
+Stuff that we are well aligned on and I want to see and provide feedback on before it is shared with a larger audience.
+
+### Notes
+
+Stuff I want to follow but don't have a lot to add to myself. This allows me to better represent your work.
+
+### No surprises
+
+Stuff we are currently aligned on but requires updates to keep me in the loop.
+
+### Let me know
+
+Stuff we are well aligned on and to let me know if anything comes up that I can help with.