# Vpe Review

> /cs:vpe-review <plan> — Throughput-first VP of Engineering interrogation of any plan that touches delivery, eng hiring, team structure, or production discipline.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-alexbramall-claude-code-skills-vpe-review`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [AlexBramall](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/alexbramall)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [AlexBramall](https://github.com/AlexBramall)
- **Source:** https://github.com/AlexBramall/claude-code-skills/tree/main/c-level-advisor/c-level-agents/skills/vpe-review

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-alexbramall-claude-code-skills-vpe-review
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# /cs:vpe-review — VPE Forcing Questions

**Command:** `/cs:vpe-review `

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?
**One Elite metric and three Lows = bad. Four Highs = healthy.**
- Deployment Frequency, Lead Time, MTTR, Change Failure Rate
- The worst metric defines overall level
- Fix lead time first; everything else follows

### 3. Where is the hiring funnel leaking?
**"Can't find good engineers" is wrong.**
- Specific stage is over-filtering OR top-of-funnel volume is too low OR offer-to-accept is broken
- Run `eng_hiring_funnel_calculator.py`
- If offer-to-accept  50% on management vs strategy, VPE is needed.**
- Or: VPE complement when CTO is co-founder more comfortable with strategy
- VPE owns operating model; CTO owns architecture
- At small scale (
**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD

## The Decision Being Made
[throughput | hiring | structure | production | VPE-vs-CTO]

## Delivery Throughput (if applicable)
- DORA overall: Elite / High / Medium / Low
- Worst metric: 
- Bottleneck:  (X% of cycle time)
- Top fix: 

## Hiring Funnel (if applicable)
- End-to-end conversion: X%
- Weakest stage: 
- Pipeline gap: +N candidates needed
- Top fix: 

## Team Structure (if applicable)
- Recommended: 
- Manager trigger fired: yes/no
- Director trigger fired: yes/no
- Action: 

## Production Discipline (if applicable)
- Current maturity level: 1-5
- Next practice to add: 
- SLO coverage: X / Y services

## Verdict
🟢 SHIP | 🟡 SHARPEN | 🔴 BLOCK

## Next Steps
[3 concrete actions]
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## Routing

- `/cs:cto-review` — for architectural causes of throughput problems
- `/cs:chro-review` — for hiring funnel comp/leveling issues
- `/cs:cfo-review` — for cost-per-hire envelope and eng budget
- `/cs:ciso-review` — for production discipline + compliance overlap
- `/cs:decide` — log the verdict
- `/cs:freeze 30` — on multi-year hiring commitments

## Related

- Agent: [`cs-vpe-advisor`](../../agents/cs-vpe-advisor.md)
- Skill: [`vpe-advisor`](../../../skills/vpe-advisor/SKILL.md)
- Adjacent: `../../../../engineering/slo-architect/`, `../../../../engineering/feature-flags-architect/`, `../../../../engineering/chaos-engineering/`

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**Version:** 1.0.0

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [AlexBramall](https://github.com/AlexBramall)
- **Source:** [AlexBramall/claude-code-skills](https://github.com/AlexBramall/claude-code-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-alexbramall-claude-code-skills-vpe-review
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/alexbramall
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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