Learning roadmap

Leading Technical Teams

Read an engineering room without writing code: shipping rhythms, tech debt, estimation, and the questions that keep teams honest.

4 stages~6 h
That leaves 4 stages, ~6 hours of focused work. You can clear it in any order, but the stages compound — try them top-to-bottom your first time.
  1. You'll pick up:

    delivery pipeline, code review, testing pyramid, deploy, observability

    Lab task

    Build an "anatomy of a feature" page: a horizontal pipeline of the six stages from design to observe, each clickable to reveal what happens there, who owns it, and the classic question a leader should ask.

    Build it in the Lab
    Checkpoint

    You can narrate one real feature's path through your company's pipeline, including where it stalled last time.

What you'll be able to do
  • Follow any engineering update — standup, incident, roadmap review — and know what question to ask next.
  • Translate "tech debt" into money terms your CFO respects, and decide when to pay it down.
  • Read estimation like a portfolio manager: ranges, confidence, and what "two weeks" really means.
  • Run 1:1s and hiring loops that surface the truth early.