engineering leadership in the age of ai
- Coaching: is not about knowing the answer, it’s about asking the right question.
- GROW framework
- Goal (the destination): What does done look like?
- If this project is a massive success in 3 months, what exactly has changed?
- Reality (the ground truth): What is the current bottleneck?
- On a scale of 1-10, how much of the codebase do you feel confident in right now?
- Options (the architect): What are the trade-offs?
- If we couldn’t use , how else would you solve this?
- Will / Way forward (the commitment): What is the next sprint?
- What is the very first PR you are going to open to move this forward?
- 2 minute coach
- If you’re short on time, use the AWE question:
And What Else?.
- Ask this 3 times before giving your own opinion.
- The 1st answer is rarely the real problem; the third one usually is.