N12-1: Your Revenue-Per-Engineer Contribution
Stop measuring yourself in story points. Start measuring yourself in dollars.
🎯 What You'll Learn
- ✓ Calculate your APER contribution
- ✓ Attribute business value to technical work
- ✓ Build impact dossiers
- ✓ Quantify your multiplier effect
Lesson 1: Beyond Story Points
Story points measure effort, not impact. Two engineers can both complete 20 story points per sprint, but one refactored the checkout flow and increased conversion by 2% ($200K/year in revenue), while the other fixed CSS bugs. Same velocity, wildly different economic value. Your career is measured in the latter, not the former.
A measure of effort complexity. Useful for sprint planning. Useless for career value.
Directly connecting your technical work to a business outcome.
Your personal share of the APER equation: how much revenue does your work enable?
List your top 3 accomplishments from the last quarter. For each, calculate the revenue impact — not the effort.
Lesson 2: Building Impact Dossiers
An impact dossier is a document you maintain continuously — not something you scramble to create before performance reviews. Every project you complete gets an entry: what you did, the business outcome, and the economic value. After 6 months, you have an irrefutable case for promotion.
Project → Action → Outcome → Dollar Value. Example: "Optimized DB queries → Reduced p99 latency 400ms→80ms → Reduced churn by 3% → $120K ARR saved."
Add entries bi-weekly, not annually.
Each entry should be ready to paste into a promotion packet or resume.
Create an impact dossier with at least 5 entries from the last 6 months. Each must include a dollar value.
Lesson 3: The Multiplier Effect
Senior engineers create value not just through their own code, but by unblocking others. If you design a shared library that saves 5 engineers 10 hours each per month, your multiplier effect is 50 engineer-hours/month. At a $100/hr burden rate, you're generating $60K/year in value — without writing a single feature.
Value created by your own hands: features shipped, bugs fixed, systems optimized.
Value created by enabling others: shared tools, documentation, mentoring, code reviews.
Direct + Multiplier = your true economic contribution.
Calculate your multiplier effect: how many engineer-hours do your tools, docs, or mentoring save per month? Convert to dollars.
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Module Syllabus
Lesson 1: Lesson 1: Beyond Story Points
Story points measure effort, not impact. Two engineers can both complete 20 story points per sprint, but one refactored the checkout flow and increased conversion by 2% ($200K/year in revenue), while the other fixed CSS bugs. Same velocity, wildly different economic value. Your career is measured in the latter, not the former.
Lesson 2: Lesson 2: Building Impact Dossiers
An impact dossier is a document you maintain continuously — not something you scramble to create before performance reviews. Every project you complete gets an entry: what you did, the business outcome, and the economic value. After 6 months, you have an irrefutable case for promotion.
Lesson 3: Lesson 3: The Multiplier Effect
Senior engineers create value not just through their own code, but by unblocking others. If you design a shared library that saves 5 engineers 10 hours each per month, your multiplier effect is 50 engineer-hours/month. At a $100/hr burden rate, you're generating $60K/year in value — without writing a single feature.