How the rhythm works
Before slides, we align on artifacts already living in your repos. The flow below is representative — exact week numbers shift per studio.
- Intake map — export diagrams, ADRs, and on-call pain points.
- Boundary lab — facilitated mapping with rotating scribes.
- Deep build weeks — async tasks with mentor checkpoints, not daily lectures.
- Review forge — structured critiques with role cards.
- Reliability overlay — SLO drafts tied to architecture gates.
- Retro with receipts — honest list of gaps we did not cover.
Before / after
Before: reviews devolve into opinions about people.
After: reviewers cite diagrams, ADRs, and measured envelopes — still spicy, but anchored.