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03 — Engineering Leadership Patterns

RFC Process, ADRs, Design Reviews, Technical Governance, and Architecture Council — the decision-making scaffolding that lets an organization make architecture calls without every one becoming a meeting.

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03 — Engineering Leadership Patterns

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  • The adr-writer skill, and a-governance/’s ADR process for how this plays out in practice

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