Team Lead / Engineering Manager perspective

Lens: Team health and throughput — sustainable pace, review capacity, hiring/onboarding, and escalation when gates stall.

Phase by phase

Phase	Your job	Key artifacts	Guides & SOPs
Plan	Capacity vs commitment	Sprint/PI capacity	SOP-001
Define	Ensure ARCH bandwidth for ADRs	ARB queue	Governance
Build	Protect focus; AI tool compliance	Team conventions	AI coding tools · SOP-010
Verify	Review assignment; stale PR SLA	Review rotation	SOP-005
Release	T1 deploy approval (with SRE)	Deploy calendar	SOP-006
Operate	On-call fairness; burnout	Rotation schedule	SOP-007
Learn	Postmortem culture; action closure	Team retro themes	SOP-008

Metrics you own

Metric	Target direction
PR cycle time (median)	Down
Main branch CI pass rate	Up (>95%)
Review queue age	Down (<1 day)
ADR/spec block time	Down
Escaped defects	Down quarter-over-quarter

Escalation paths you own

Issue	Action
Review bottleneck	Assign reviewers; reduce WIP
Gate bypass pressure	Reinforce G1/G2 with leadership
Non-security exception	Approve via SOP-012
Repeat incidents	Resource postmortem actions

Onboarding

New engineers: SOP-011 · Developer workflow

Pitfalls (Team Lead view)

Pitfall	Mitigation
Hero culture on incidents	Rotate; blameless postmortems
Unlimited AI tool sprawl	Standardize + SEC policy
Skipping onboarding on AI policy	Day 1 acknowledgment
Measuring output by commits	Outcome + flow metrics