Engineering Leadership Kit

Context, diagnosis with evidence and crux, guiding policies, coherent actions with owners, trade-offs and non-goals, DORA metrics, risks, review cadence

Quarterly DORA five-metric report per service, definitions and formulas, data quality, capability assessment, survey data, findings, actions

DevEx survey instrument and results: framework mapping, privacy and anonymity rules, original question bank, analysis method, results, actions

Debt register with Fowler quadrant, AI-generated code debt, interest and cost-of-delay method, priority score, fitness function and DORA instability links, budget, cadence

A team's public interface: type, mission, owned services, versioning, channels, ways of working, roadmap, interaction modes

IC and manager tracks, L1 to L7 levels, six competency areas, behaviour descriptors, expectations matrix, promotion evidence, calibration, fairness checks

Hiring post – role, requirements, process

Competencies mapped to ladder levels, interview loop, question bank, anchored 1 to 4 scale, scorecard, debrief protocol, bias and legal controls, retention

Engineering onboarding plan: access provisioning and deprovisioning, dev environment, SSDF PO.2.2 training, codebase tour, first PR, 30/60/90 outcomes, on-call path, metrics

Self-assessment – goals vs evidence, asks

Promotion case – level evidence, endorsements

Blameless incident postmortem: severity per matrix, impact and error budget, UTC timeline, root cause, 5 Whys, security incident links, action items

Retro – well / not-well / owned actions