Practice leadership is a model for driving company-wide engineering practices without formal authority over teams. At Canonical, this approach successfully transformed documentation from an afterthought into a first-class engineering discipline across 650+ employees. The practice lead establishes standards, tools, execution methods, and most importantly, organizational value for the practice. Unlike traditional team or product leadership, practice leadership requires influencing entire organizations to adopt new ways of working. Canonical has expanded this model to other domains like community practice and created a public handbook to help other organizations implement similar transformations.
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