Leadership Cadence & Funding

Purpose and scope

Shift leadership focus from approvals to removing system constraints.

Outcomes

• Regular flow reviews with action logs.
• Investment choices tied to DORA/DevEx.
• Public recognition for learning and improvement.

Signals of trouble

• Approval theater replaces trust.
• Multi-quarter blockers persist.
• Platform underfunded despite clear constraints.

Remediation steps

1. Run flow-centric reviews; track blockers and owners.
2. Align funding to platform and enablement impact.
3. Celebrate safe-to-fail experiments and learning.

Checklists and assets

• playbooks/leadership-for-flow/checklist.md cadence items.

References

• Exec update templates; decision logs.