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Define Clear Goals and Accountability

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You are the engineering manager for a team that owns a customer-facing service used by multiple internal product teams. The team is delivering work, but priorities keep shifting, ownership is unclear, and leadership is asking why commitments slip even when everyone is busy. You want to reset how the team defines goals, tracks progress, and holds people accountable without creating bureaucracy or slowing delivery.

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How do you make sure your team is operating with clear goals and accountability?