Ninety Minutes Is Enough for a Board Workshop on Completion
The board workshop agenda
Companion to The Code Takes Care of Itself · Updated 2026-09-29
Run this agenda for a board workshop on Completion Engineering. It takes ninety minutes.
| Minutes | What happens |
|---|---|
| 10 | Open with the six-migration-plan scenario from “AI Makes Drafts Cheap, So Finishing Is the Constraint,” or your closest equivalent. |
| 15 | Present the AI Maturity Ladder, then have each director place the organization on it privately, before hearing anyone else. The spread of the answers is the finding. |
| 20 | Walk the Completion Loop map: every stage, its owner, today’s constraint. |
| 25 | Open the floor to the board’s own questions, unscripted. |
| 20 | Agree on the one or two metrics the board sees at every future meeting, and name who reports them. |
The board guide has the questions directors should ask you, and the signals that show whether the conversation worked.