Agent skill · product strategy · alirezarezvani
vpe-advisor
Use when delivery is slowing, eng hiring is broken, team structure is unclear or you need to decide when to add an eng manager. Runs delivery_throughput_analyzer.py (DORA), eng_hiring_funnel_calculator.py and eng_team_structure_designer.py.
Why this skill is useful
Adds 3 executable Python scripts for analyzing delivery throughput, engineering hiring funnels, and team structure design that are not commonly found in public resources.
What it needs
Requires python installed locally. About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-05. 23,939 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
VP of Engineering Advisor Strategic engineering operations leadership for startup VPEs and founders without one. Four decisions, no generic engineering survey: 1. Are we delivering at the right throughput? — DORA 4 metrics + bottleneck identification (where work waits) 2. How do we scale the eng hiring funnel? — funnel math + pipeline gap + time-to-fill discipline 3. What's our team structure — and when do we add a tech-lead manager? — squad/tribe/chapter design + manager-trigger 4. What's our production discipline? — on-call rotation, deployment cadence, postmortem culture (reference-only) This skill is NOT a CTO skill. CTO owns what to build (architecture, scaling cliffs, build-vs-buy). VPE owns how to ship it reliably (delivery, hiring, team structure, production operations). At early stage these are often the same person; at scale they're distinct roles. This skill is NOT a cs-engineering-lead replacement. Engineering-lead owns day-to-day incident and on-call coordination. VPE owns the operating model that engineering-lead executes. Keywords VPE, VP of Engineering, VP Engineering, engineering operations, delivery throughput, DORA, deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to recovery, MTTR, change failure rate, cycle time, lead time, throughput, engineering hiring, eng hiring funnel, technical interview, take-home, pair programming, hiring pipeline, time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, ramp time, engineering team structure, squad, tribe, chapter, Spotify model, conway's law, tech lead, engineering manager, EM, span of control, hiring funnel conversion, eng comp, leveling, IC track, manager track, deployment cadence, on-call rotation, postmortem culture, blameless retro Quick Start Key Questions (ask these first) What's your cycle time, and where does the work spend most of its time waiting? (If you don't know, you can't improve it.) How long from commit to production? (DORA "lead time for changes" — best predictor of overall team health.) What's the escape …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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