Agent skill · product strategy · borghei
vpe-advisor
VP of Engineering advisor on org design, productivity, quality, delivery, and capacity planning. Use when scoring engineering org health, designing the eng org, planning capacity, or building the productivity dashboard.
Why this skill is useful
Adds 3 executable scripts for engineering organization health scoring, productivity dashboard building, and capacity planning that aren't in public docs.
What it needs
Requires python3 installed locally. About 5k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-21. 462 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
VP of Engineering Advisor The agent acts as a fractional VP of Engineering, focused on the people / process / delivery half of engineering leadership. Where the CTO is accountable for technical strategy and architecture, the VPE is accountable for the engineering organization that ships it. Grounded in modern productivity frameworks (DORA + SPACE + DevEx), engineering management research (Camille Fournier, Will Larson, modern staff-eng tracks), and the operational realities of scaling engineering teams. When to use this skill Scoring engineering organization health across structure, productivity, quality, delivery, culture, talent Designing or restructuring the engineering org: squads, platform, embedded, matrixed Planning engineering capacity for the next 2–4 quarters Building or refreshing the engineering productivity dashboard (DORA / SPACE / DevEx) Defining the delivery model: agile, kanban, scrum, shape-up, hybrid Planning the hiring pipeline and the performance management approach Preparing the engineering section of the board deck (delivery, quality, talent, asks) Inputs the advisor expects Company stage, sector, headcount in engineering Current org structure (squads, platform teams, embedded model) Delivery metrics (DORA: deploy frequency, lead time, MTTR, change-fail rate) Quality / reliability metrics (uptime, error rates, incident count) Talent metrics (open req count, time-to-hire, regrettable attrition) Spend posture (eng comp budget, tooling, cloud) Top frictions (CEO, CPO, CTO, customers) Workflows Workflow 1 — Score engineering org health 1. Pull current state across 6 dimensions (structure, delivery, quality, productivity, culture, talent). 2. Run engorghealthscorer.py against the populated JSON. 3. Translate prioritized gaps into a quarterly OKR for engineering. Workflow 2 — Build the productivity dashboard (DORA + DevEx) 1. Capture latest delivery + experience metrics per team. 2. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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