Delivery Management and AI: Engineering Leadership Pulse

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Seventeen questions for technology and product leaders, on what changed in delivery once writing code stopped being the constraint. About seven minutes. Contributors get the paper first.

* marks the only required question. Everything else is optional, and a partial answer is still useful.

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You

+01 Which best describes your current leadership role?*
+02 How many engineers are you accountable for, directly or indirectly?

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What actually changed

These three questions test the assumption the rest of the survey rests on.

+03 How widely are AI coding tools used across the teams you are accountable for?
+04 Since adopting those tools, how has the volume of working software your teams produce changed?
+05 Since adopting those tools, how has the time from deciding to build something to it being live for users changed?The whole calendar, not just the part spent writing code.

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Where the time goes

Think of one piece of work your teams delivered in the last quarter. Not the best or worst, a typical one.

+06 Roughly what share of its calendar time went to each stage?
Almost noneA small shareA significant shareMost of it
Deciding whether to build it at all
Getting alignment and sign-off
Design and specification
Writing and reviewing the code
Waiting on another team
Testing, release and deployment
+07 Which of these have become MORE of a constraint since adopting AI coding tools?Select any that apply.

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Deciding

+08 How long does it typically take to get a decision on what to build next?
+09 Of the work delivered in the last quarter, roughly how much turned out to be the wrong thing (reworked, reverted, or abandoned)?
+10 Has that share changed since adopting AI coding tools?

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Seeing it

+11 How much do you trust what your work tracking system says about the current state of work?
+12 When a delivery date slips, when do you typically find out?
+13 Out of the last ten commitments your teams made, roughly how many landed on time?
+14 Can you see in a single view what every team is working on and when it is expected to land?

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The shape of it

+15 Since adopting AI coding tools, where has your teams' attention moved?
Much less attentionSomewhat lessNo changeSomewhat moreMuch more attention
Feature delivery
Architectural health
Developer experience
+16 What is the single greatest challenge you face right now in managing AI-empowered engineering teams?
+17 If writing code is no longer your constraint, what is?Optional, and the one we are most interested in.

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