Technical leadership

Status: Outline. Focus on decision quality and communication rather than management slogans.

To cover

• Code-review severity, preferences, risk, and context sharing
• Estimates as ranges with assumptions and uncertainty reduction
• Technical debt, interest, ownership, and repayment triggers
• Architecture decision records and reversible decisions
• Build-versus-buy, migration strategy, and organizational constraints
• Mentoring, disagreement, escalation, and incident leadership

Interview prompts

• How do you resolve an architectural disagreement without appealing to seniority?
• Describe technical debt in terms that support an actionable decision.