Engineering Team Playbook (1997)
The written norms and processes we introduced when forming the NMS engineering team — hiring rubric, one-on-one template, incident process, and definition of done.
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Engineering Team Playbook (1997)
The written agreements and processes from the NMS team's first year — the kind of documentation that prevents recurring conversations and makes expectations explicit.
Contents
hiring-rubric.md— criteria and interview questions we used for technical hiresonboarding-checklist.md— what a new developer needed to know in week oneone-on-one-template.md— agenda format for weekly one-on-onesincident-process.md— how we handled production incidents (roles, timeline, blameless post-mortem)definition-of-done.md— the shared standard a feature had to meet before it was considered complete