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Guides for running engineering on AI.

Each one starts from a situation engineering leaders recognise, asks the questions it raises, and ends with an exercise you can run on your own organisation.

A question to take to your next review

Where does your AI spend actually go?

Most engineering organisations know what they paid for AI, not what it bought. Five questions, a four-step ladder, and an exercise on your own numbers.

An eight-minute readRead the guide →
Picture it in your organisation

Three teams, three AI tools, one roadmap

Your teams chose different AI tools and got faster. How to let the ways of working differ and still run one roadmap, with an exercise to map your own teams.

A seven-minute readRead the guide →
For your security review

Twelve questions your security team will ask about AI coding agents

Data, access, control and evidence: the questions a security review asks before AI agents reach your code, and a checklist that turns your gaps into a brief.

A ten-minute readRead the guide →
Picture it in your organisation

Your first 90 days running engineering on AI

Most AI rollouts start with licences and reach day ninety with no story to tell. A plan in three phases, and an exercise that dates your own.

A seven-minute readRead the guide →
A question to take to your next review

When should an AI agent stop and ask?

An agent that never asks makes calls that aren't its to make; one that always asks slows you down. Three kinds of decision, and an exercise to draw your own line.

A seven-minute readRead the guide →
A decision for engineering leaders

What to report to the board after a quarter of AI-assisted delivery

Four answers that survive a second question, three numbers to leave out, and an exercise that drafts your board page from your own figures.

A seven-minute readRead the guide →
Picture it in your organisation

The migration nobody would scope

Every organisation defers one migration because nobody can size it. Start with a cycle that buys knowledge, then ship slices, with an exercise to size your own.

A six-minute readRead the guide →
A decision for engineering leaders

Spec-driven development at team ten

The practice works, which is why it spreads. What has to become shared by the tenth team, and an exercise that places you on that curve.

A six-minute readRead the guide →

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