Building on Imran's 25 years coding and 16 years team lead experience, we suggest that

Employers create 12 sprints with 6 milestones for 12 weeks. This is for a program that steadily builds Organizational Excellence as a practice, not one off.

Each Team Member is asked to spend 4 hours during the week to make sure they are adopting new habits and process.

An engineering portal is created for KB, Process and Showcasing of Learnings and Tasks. A clear separation of what code can be shown and what is confidential for products/customers only is established.

Structured Email Templates to cover every self development or mentoring and review process are created.

KPAs and KIAs are revisited and at the team level, the backlog of tasks for this program is created. This could include Documentation, Tech Spec, Refactorings, Code Review Process, Performance and Test Coverage, Infrastructure Code Development Mindset etc.

Retrospectives for past 3 months of work is done starting from Individuals upto Org Management. This is in Structured Email Format. The Initiative is given a name like "coe" or "orgex" or "sunlight" and a dedicated email is made and shared with the Training Partner.

A leads planning project is created, this will track Individuals needs and mentoring plans.

The 2 Backlogs are groomed and a Soft Launch is done whereby Emails are sent in by everyone and the Training Need Analysis phase begins.

Once a picture of what is expected from all for this 3 month exercise, a core team comprising a project manager, architect and training partner plan a formal launch. They together own this whole process.

Normally the expected lead time for this is one month, by which time confidence is built all round and enough momentum is gained by the core team of 3.

In the execution phase, a dedicated whole team together time is set like Friday or Saturday and a "send in emails" cut-off for either Monday or Tuesday.

Attention is given to communication, writing and presentation skills and opportunities from juniors up to take workshops / demo their learnings.

Use of AmadeusWeb Spring for company, team and individual showcase websites is suggested. This can be decided after content starts to come in.

Imran Ali Namazi 25 May 2026 Lead Trainer, Evolving Sunlight, JoyfulEarth.org