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Engineering Leadership practice

Make the right call as an engineering lead
Situational judgment for leading engineers — delegation, feedback that lands, useful 1:1s, meetings that decide things, stakeholder pushback, prioritization under pressure, cross-team conflict, hiring, and growing people — plus the named models behind the craft: SBI feedback, Tuckman’s stages, psychological safety, DORA metrics, Conway’s and Brooks’s laws, Team Topologies. Each scenario has one defensible best move, and the explanation names the tempting mistake. Judgment practice for engineering managers, tech leads, and engineers heading that way — not a personality test.
• Meets you at your level — never too easy, never too hard.
• Adapts every question to how you’re doing.
• Tracks your level over time. Skill practice, not a test.
New here? Read the Engineering Leadership guide
A free 17-minute primer — the mental model, the mistakes beginners make, and what to practise first.
Curriculum
132 concepts across 21 chapters, from foundations through advanced practice — each one a concept the adaptive question bank can teach and test.
A. Stepping into leadership
6
B. Delegation and decision rights
6
C. 1:1s, coaching and motivation
6
D. Feedback that changes behavior
7
E. Hard conversations and performance management
6
F. Psychological safety and the culture that produces it
6
G. Team dynamics
5
H. Hiring, interviewing and onboarding
8
I. The four keys and what they measure
8
J. Batch size, queues and flow
5
K. Estimation, commitments and Brooks's law
6
L. Meetings and group decisions
6
M. Technical strategy, debt and migrations
7
N. Org design, Conway's law and Team Topologies
8
O. Incident command
7
P. Blameless postmortems
6
Q. On-call, error budgets and toil
7
R. Stakeholders and upward communication
6
S. Careers, ladders and staff-plus
6
T. Measuring engineers without breaking them
5
U. Remote and async practice
5
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