Technical Leadership.

ADRs, RFCs, cross-team influence, tech strategy, mentoring, and stakeholder communication. Covers 8 sub-skills.

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  Architecture Decision Records

  What is the primary benefit of writing Architecture Decision Records?

  ASatisfying external compliance audit requirementsBPreventing anyone from changing the architecture laterCCapturing the context and reasoning behind decisionsDGenerating automated architecture diagrams

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  Mentoring & Knowledge Scaling

  You're building a skill matrix for your team to identify knowledge gaps. What is the most common pitfall that makes skill matrices ineffective?

  AMaking the matrix visible to the whole teamBUsing a 1-5 scale instead of descriptive levelsCIncluding too many skills on the matrixDSelf-assessment with no calibration step

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  Stakeholder Communication

  Your engineering organization has a persistent failure pattern: teams report green status until projects are obviously failing, then suddenly report red. What systemic change addresses this?

  AMake early amber reporting safe and something to celebrateBAdd a mandatory risk assessment to each status report templateCImplement daily status checks so problems cannot hide for longDHave an independent PMO team verify status reports for accuracy