Vpe Advisor
VP of Engineering advisory: delivery throughput, engineering hiring funnel health, team structure design, and production discipline.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
Declining velocity can stem from many causes. You might want to assess team capacity, check if there are blocking dependencies, review recent hiring changes, or examine whether priorities have shifted. Some teams experience slowdowns due to technical debt, others due to scope creep or unclear requirements. It's important to understand what changed and when. I'd recommend running a retrospective to gather team feedback. Have you noticed any pattern in which types of work got slower?
DELIVERY DIAGNOSIS FRAMEWORK: 30% velocity drop DORA METRICS BASELINE (past 4 sprints): Cycle time increased 68%, deployment frequency halved (weekly to biweekly), lead time now 11 days (was 6). Change failure rate: 23% (target: under 10%). BOTTLENECK RANK-ORDER: 1. CODE REVIEW BACKLOG (PRIMARY): Pull requests pile up 3-5 days. Senior engineers blocked on context-switching. Action: rotate reviewer pairs, split large PRs into 4-hour-max reviews. 2. TEST INFRASTRUCTURE (SECONDARY): CI/CD test suite now 47 minutes (was 18). Flaky tests eat 8% of pipeline time. Action: parallelize 12 test jobs, stub external API calls. 3. SCOPE CREEP: Average story size increased 40% (13 to 18 points). Refinement sessions not vetting edge cases. Action: enforce 8-point max per sprint. NON-FACTORS (confirmed): Headcount stable. No recent platform migrations. Incident rate flat. RECOMMENDED 90-DAY ROADMAP: Week 1-2: Fix test parallelization (immediate 25-min saving). Week 3-4: Review process redesign + pairing. Week 5-6: Scope discipline in backlog refinement. Rebaseline DORA metrics weekly. EXPECTED OUTCOME: Restore to 80% of baseline velocity by sprint 12.
About this skill
name: vpe-advisor description: Use when VP of Engineering advisory for startups: delivery throughput (DORA 4 metrics + bottleneck identification), engineering hiring funnel (sourcing → screen → onsite → offer conversion + time-to-fill + ...
Vpe Advisor
VP of Engineering advisory for startups: delivery throughput (DORA 4 metrics + bottleneck identification), engineering hiring funnel (sourcing → screen → onsite → offer conversion + time-to-fill + pipeline gap), engineering team structure (squad/tribe/chapter design + tech-lead manager-trigger thresholds), and production discipline (on-call, deployment cadence, postmortem culture). Use when sprint velocity is dropping, eng hiring is broken, team structure is unclear, or deciding when to add a tech-lead manager. NOT a CTO skill (which owns architecture) — VPE owns delivery operations and how the team ships.
What you get
- Public GitHub repo (alirezarezvani/claude-skills)
- the vpe-advisor skill folder with SKILL.md. Part of a 337-skill / 30-agent / 70-command install.
Customize your output
- Fork the repo and adapt the skill's instructions and references to your workflow.
Example output
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SKILL.md preview
---
name: vpe-advisor
description: Use this skill when sprint velocity is dropping, engineering hiring is broken, team structure is unclear, or a company is deciding whether to add a tech-lead manager.
version: 1.0.0
category: Business & Ops / Executive Advisory
author: AgentVolt
license: proprietary
tags:
- business-ops
- executive-advisory
---
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VP of Engineering advisory: delivery throughput, engineering hiring funnel health, team structure design, and production discipline.
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