1. Phase 1. Where to start

    Why this course exists and who it fits: the problem it solves, how phases, quizzes, tests and trainers work, and how to go through it without dropping off.

  2. Phase 2. The role and stepping into it · 3 questions

    What changes after the promotion, how to step into a team, and how the lead role differs from the architect role.

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  3. Phase 3. The team: structure, ownership, people · 6 questions

    Who owns what, how to delegate decisions along with tasks, how to grow engineers, and what to do when the conversation gets hard.

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  4. Phase 4. Hiring and onboarding · 2 questions

    The profile before the search, three evaluation stages, perception traps, and a new hire's first thirty days.

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  5. Phase 5. Commitments: deadlines, flow, stakeholders · 4 questions

    Why estimates miss, how an estimate differs from a commitment, and how to manage inbound requests and outside expectations.

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  6. Phase 6. Engineering norms and quality · 4 questions

    What code the team considers acceptable: review norms, technical debt in money and time, the standard as executable rules, engineering practices.

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  7. Phase 7. Reliability and operations · 6 questions

    What happens when things break: blameless reviews, a living action plan, on-call rotation and alerts worth reacting to.

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  8. Phase 8. Decisions and recording them

    How to make and record decisions that outlive the team roster: ADRs, the design doc, and evaluating forks by criteria.

  9. Phase 9. Measurement and the business conversation · 2 questions

    Delivery metrics that show process health, the harm of individual metrics, and outcome metrics that answer whether the work was useful.

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