Agent skill · alirezarezvani
vpe-review
/cs:vpe-review <plan> — Throughput-first VP of Engineering interrogation of any plan that touches delivery, eng hiring, team structure, or production discipline. Use when cycle time balloons, DORA metrics slide, or before committing to an eng hiring wave or a reorg.
What it needs
About 3k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
/cs:vpe-review — VPE Forcing Questions Command: /cs:vpe-review <plan> The throughput-first VPE pressure-tests any plan touching eng operations. Six questions before any delivery commitment, eng hiring expansion, team restructure, or production-discipline change. When to Run Before quarterly delivery commitment (sprint planning, OKR review) Before approving an eng hiring plan Before restructuring eng teams (splitting/merging squads, adding tribes) Before deciding whether to hire a VPE separately from CTO (or merge them) When production incidents are increasing When sprint velocity is dropping but everyone says "we're working hard" The Six VPE Questions 1. What's the cycle time, and where does work wait? No DORA, no diagnosis. Lead Time for Changes is the single best health metric If you can't decompose cycle time into stages, you can't fix the bottleneck Run deliverythroughputanalyzer.py 2. What's the DORA performance level on all 4 metrics? One Elite metric and three Lows = bad. Four Highs = healthy. Deployment Frequency, Lead Time, MTTR, Change Failure Rate The worst metric defines overall level Fix lead time first; everything else follows 3. Where is the hiring funnel leaking? "Can't find good engineers" is wrong. Specific stage is over-filtering OR top-of-funnel volume is too low OR offer-to-accept is broken Run enghiringfunnelcalculator.py If offer-to-accept < 70%, comp is below market or close discipline is weak 4. Is the team structure healthy for the headcount? 5-9 ICs per squad; 5-8 ICs per EM; 4-6 EMs per director. Run engteamstructuredesigner.py Manager-trigger fires when 5+ ICs have no dedicated EM Director-trigger fires when 3+ EMs report directly to VPE/CTO 5. What's the production discipline maturity? Level 1-5; aim for Level 3 at growth stage. …
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