Engineering Leadership Judgment

The chapters in this module, in reading order.

#	Chapter
00	Engineering Principles — The Five-Year-Old Version
01	Sprint Chaos Without Principles — Heroic starts, cursed endings
02	Build, Buy, or Fine-tune — The classic captain decision
03	Reversibility and One-Way Doors — Speed where rollback is cheap
04	Decision Records and ADRs — The ship's log remembers
05	Three Quality Layers — one ship, three instruments
06	Observability & Error Budgets — instruments plus rules for sailing
07	AI Technical Debt — the silent bill below the deck
08	AI Code Review — review behavior, not just syntax
09	Sprint Planning for Research-Heavy AI Work — Plan the unknown without pretending it is known
10	Stakeholder Communication — Same signal, different language
11	Managing Expectations — Keep trust alive by naming limits early
12	Honest Admission — Good principles guide; they do not erase hard tradeoffs