Engineering Strategy

Linked References

• [[6 Archetypes of Broken Ownership]]

  Explores six archetypes of broken ownership when knowledge, mandate, or responsibility are missing, …

• [[Architecturally-significant Requirement (ASR)]]

  A requirement that measurably influences a software system’s architecture.

• [[Architecture Decision (AD)]]

  A software design choice that addresses an architecturally-significant requirement.

• [[Architecture Decision Log (ADL)]]

  A collection of all Architecture Decision Records for a project or organization.

• [[Theory of Constraints]]

  A system is only as strong as its weakest point. Focus on the bottleneck and optimize the entire …

• [[AI Adoption]]

  The process of integrating AI tools and practices into an organization.

• [[Amazon's 6-Pager]]

  Amazon’s narrative-driven decision document format for meetings and proposals.

• [[Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)]]

  Lightweight documentation format for recording architectural decisions and their context.

• [[Bazel BUILD Style Guide]]

  Official Bazel style guide recommending DAMP over DRY for BUILD files.

• [[Coachable, Learnable, and Intrinsic - Hiring Framework]]

  Framework for understanding which skills are coachable, learnable, or intrinsic when hiring.

• [[Decision Document Framework by Arnav Kumar]]

  Arnav Kumar’s framework for writing comprehensive decision documents to get faster approvals.

• [[DORA]]

  DevOps Research and Assessment - research program studying software delivery performance.

• [[Internal Platform]]

  Infrastructure and tooling built for internal developer use within an organization.

• [[One OS to Rule Them All - Linux Parody]]

  Parody of Tolkien’s Ring Verse celebrating Linux and open source.

• [[Platform Engineering]]

  Building internal platforms as products to improve developer experience and productivity.

• [[RACI Matrix]]

  Responsibility assignment framework defining who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and …

• [[Request for Comments (RFC)]]

  Collaborative decision-making process where proposals are shared for feedback before finalization.

• [[Value Stream Mapping]]

  A lean management technique for visualizing and analyzing the flow of work through a system.

• [[Wardley Maps]]

  A strategy visualization tool.

• [[Minimum Viable Product (MVP)]]

  A version of a product with just enough features to be usable by early customers.

• [[Proof of Concept (POC)]]

  A realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility.

• [[Prototype]]

  An early sample or model of a product built to test a concept.