This month's MVP is Matsunaga Satoru, who demonstrates leadership skills as a mainstream engineer.

This month's MVP was awarded to Satoru Matsunaga from the Creative Department.

He was awarded the prize in recognition of his growth as a director of site operations and production, and as a leader of the coding team.

In fact, around the time of the MVP selection in September, managers from other departments had started to say, "Matsunaga-san, you've become stronger recently."
Congratulations on being named MVP at this point as we close out 2017.

Responsible for overseeing internal and external production resources

In web production, it is inevitable that work tends to be concentrated at the end of the month or at the end of the term (quarter, half year, year-end, fiscal year end). In order to deal with this, it is necessary to ask for cooperation from Monotai, the CF department, the design department, and several partner companies.

In order to deepen cooperation with collaborating members and improve responsiveness, the Creative Department restructured and established a Technical Direction Team in July.

The members who were both production and direction staff from both the operations team and the direction team were brought together under Matsunaga. He also served as a team leader on the operations team and had earned the trust of the production staff as a playing coach, providing technical support.

We asked him to oversee production resources both inside and outside the company, including collaboration with coders from Monotai and the CF department, as well as coders and programmers from partner companies.

*Matsunaga's work as a playing coach has been covered in detail in a previous article.

• Member Introduction
  " The superhero of the operations team! Satoru Matsunaga saves everyone !" (June 7, 2017)
• MVP of the Month
  " This month's MVP award goes to Satoru Matsunaga, who supports the operations team with his skills " (2016.1.25)
  

Leadership comes from accepting what you can't do

Matsunaga likes to write the code himself.
I feel most energetic when I take on the challenge of solving problems that arise in front of me.
However, there were times when I would get stuck in a rut and be unable to move forward.

This is a common tendency among people who aspire to learn and put into practice a certain skill. This is because there is a gap between the skill level they want to have and the skills they actually have.

The important thing here is to determine and acknowledge that this is the limit of what you can do at the moment. This is also an important point when planning the division of responsibilities among the members who will be collaborating.

On this point, at a past study session, I introduced Matsunaga to the "Code of Ethics for Professional Engineers" compiled by the Japan Institute of Professional Engineers.

* For all items of the Code of Ethics for Professional Engineers, please refer to the website of the Institute of Professional Engineers, Japan .

Among the 10 basic attitudes expected of engineers, the item I will introduce below seemed to be an eye-opener.

Emphasis on usefulness
3. Do what is within your capabilities and don't do what you are not confident about.

It states that "If there is something you can't do, you should leave it to someone who can." This is something that is difficult for engineers who are aiming to improve their technical skills to accept and put into practice. This is because they tend to feel guilty about admitting that their own abilities are lacking.

It seems to me that Matsunaga has faced this issue head on.
What extent should the members of your department be responsible for? What extent should you ask your internal and external collaborators to take on? And what is the extent of the work that you yourself need to handle?
We have thought hard about how to recognize the skills of each of our production team members, both inside and outside the company, and make the most of them, and have put this into practice.
I believe that this attitude has earned him the trust of his collaborators and led to his leadership.

I hope that he will continue to walk the path of an engineer with confidence and lead the production team.