Career Frameworks

IC vs. Manager Dual-Track Pathing Workbook

The IC vs. Manager Dual-Track Pathing Workbook lets you design two parallel career ladders — one for individual contributors, one for people managers — side by side in a single Excel file, so you can see where their scope aligns and where a person crosses between them. You define each track's per-level scope, decision authority and competency target, then map the crossover: which IC level a person must reach before entering the M1 track, and the reverse-move rule back. Track-switch criteria for each direction are written as a DESIGN you adapt, and a computed parity dashboard flags where the two tracks have fallen out of scope alignment. Every level structure, crossover point and switch criterion is your own design and your own words; the workbook asserts no benchmark for how many levels a track should have or when a person is ready to switch.