Run the Workbook with Your Team
Workshop agendas, audits, assessments, a roadmap, and a discussion guide from The Code Takes Care of Itself that a team can run without the author in the room.
Companion to The Code Takes Care of Itself · Updated 2026-09-29
Run this workbook with your team: workshop agendas, exercises, and assessments you can facilitate without me in the room. I kept it separate from the argument on purpose. The chapters make the case, and this material assumes you’ve bought it. Print what you need, skip the rest.
The coaching guides for each executive seat are in C-suite coaching.
Workshops and Meetings
- A half-day workshop finds the constraint across teams
- A monthly thirty-minute meeting catches cross-functional collisions
- Answer three questions per part, out loud, in the same room
Exercises and Assessments
- Cut the roadmap items that fail the two-sided test
- Six statements place you on the AI Maturity Ladder
- Track four facts about every decision
- Six checks show whether the Completion Loop works
- Name the stage most likely to fail for each initiative
The Plan
In this section
- A Half-Day Workshop Finds the Constraint Across Teams
A half-day agenda for engineering team leads to audit their own Completion Loops, compare constraints, and leave with owners and targets.
- Cut the Roadmap Items That Fail the Two-Sided Test
A one-session exercise for product leadership: run the two-sided test on every initiative in discovery or prototyping and cut what fails.
- A Monthly Thirty-Minute Meeting Catches Cross-Functional Collisions
A standing monthly meeting with one purpose: catch the moment two functions collide over the same unfinished work.
- Six Statements Place You on the AI Maturity Ladder
A six-statement, zero-to-four assessment that maps a score to a rung of the AI Maturity Ladder.
- Track Four Facts About Every Decision
A monthly scorecard that records how long each decision waited, who closed it, and what it did to Integration Debt.
- Six Checks Show Whether the Completion Loop Works
A six-item checklist for testing whether an organization runs its Completion Loop or only describes it.
- Name the Stage Most Likely to Fail for Each Initiative
A monthly worksheet that names, for each active initiative, the Completion Loop stage most likely to fail first, the cost, and who catches it.
- A CTO Roadmap Runs from Thirty Days to Three Years
A four-horizon roadmap for building Completion Engineering into an organization, from the first thirty days to a three-year evolution.
- Answer Three Questions per Part, Out Loud, in the Same Room
Three questions for each of the seven parts of the book, for a leadership team working through it together, one part per session.