/cs:vpe-review <plan> — Throughput-first VP of Engineering interrogation of any plan that touches delivery, eng hiring, team structure, or production discipline. Use when cycle time balloons, DORA metrics slide, or before committing to an eng hiring wave or a reorg.
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/cs:vpe-review <plan> — Throughput-first VP of Engineering interrogation of any plan that touches delivery, eng hiring, team structure, or production discipline. Use when cycle time balloons, DORA metrics slide, or before committing to an eng hiring wave or a reorg.
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---name: "vpe-review"
description: "/cs:vpe-review <plan> — Throughput-first VP of Engineering interrogation of any plan that touches delivery, eng hiring, team structure, or production discipline. Use when cycle time balloons, DORA metrics slide, or before committing to an eng hiring wave or a reorg."
---# /cs:vpe-review — VPE Forcing Questions
**Command:** `/cs:vpe-review <plan>`
The throughput-first VPE pressure-tests any plan touching eng operations. Six questions before any delivery commitment, eng hiring expansion, team restructure, or production-discipline change.
## When to Run
- Before quarterly delivery commitment (sprint planning, OKR review)
- Before approving an eng hiring plan
- Before restructuring eng teams (splitting/merging squads, adding tribes)
- Before deciding whether to hire a VPE separately from CTO (or merge them)
- When production incidents are increasing
- When sprint velocity is dropping but everyone says "we're working hard"
## The Six VPE Questions
### 1. What's the cycle time, and where does work wait?
**No DORA, no diagnosis.**
- Lead Time for Changes is the single best health metric
- If you can't decompose cycle time into stages, you can't fix the bottleneck
- Run `delivery_throughput_analyzer.py`
### 2. What's the DORA performance level on all 4 metrics?
