Making Performance Allies

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Shows a concrete claim: reframing speed as a revenue and competitive metric wins allies. Uses Lighthouse scores, wpostats and web.dev case studies, analytics, and a simple hypothesis template (belief → remediation → outcome). Builds a web performance article leaderboard that gets executive buy‑in, secures small budget, and over 2–3 years moves perf into slide decks. Runs an ad-partner study, removed partner A (0.9% placement) to reduce long tasks and boost engagement. Sets a 3 months goal for measurable traction.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:07Soft skills in web performance
3. 2:54Top five soft skills
4. 3:58Communication shapes relationships
5. 4:41Framing performance for non-engineers
6. 5:45Finding common ground
7. 8:15Leveraging personal interests
8. 9:40Early web performance journey
9. 10:21Creativity in performance
10. 11:03Executive buy-in via benchmarking
11. 12:07Project management and budget
12. 13:30Proactive problem-solving
13. 14:32Case studies for metrics
14. 15:18Performance to business outcomes
15. 16:01Slow ads optimization
16. 17:24Hypothesis-driven fixes
17. 18:48Ad ops as allies
18. 19:31Overcoming skepticism
19. 20:12Metrics in relatable terms
20. 22:04Turning data into stories
21. 23:49Interpreting milliseconds
22. 25:13Storytelling for metrics
23. 26:35Analogies for impact
24. 27:37Narratives from data
25. 28:19Documentation for allies
26. 29:00Guiding third-party performance
27. 30:05Team working agreements
28. 31:07Self-assessing soft skills
29. 31:49Diagnosing skill gaps
30. 33:11Planning growth in allyship
31. 34:16Reflecting on teamwork
32. 35:013-month allyship goals
33. 36:02Learning from open-source guides
34. 37:08Framing disagreements
35. 38:11Preparing responses
36. 38:52Scripting explanations
37. 39:13Improving storytelling
38. 39:34Working with difficult personalities
39. 40:16Delivering soft skills
40. 40:57Call to action

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