From Engineers to Operators - AI Strategy Workbook for Engineering Leaders

From Engineers to Operators is a practical workbook for engineering leaders navigating the AI era. It shows why AI adoption often stalls, introduces the Operator role, and provides hands-on frameworks and real artifacts to move from hype to scalable, safe leverage.

Built on real experience — including a full project developed almost entirely with AI coding agents — this book gives you the tools to lead AI adoption with clarity, guardrails, and measurable impact.

Updated October 2025:
Includes two new chapters — Prototyping with AI Agents and Evidence: What DORA 2025 Tells Us — expanding the workbook with concrete methods for building safely at discovery speed and data-backed insights on team performance.

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What’s Inside

• Foundations for AI success — why it works for some teams but fails for others.
• The Operator shift — how engineering roles are evolving in Software 3.0.
• Actionable frameworks — Context × Constraint Matrix, Operator Loop, Adoption Scorecard.
• Workshop kits & templates — run sessions that embed practices into your team.
• Proven artifacts — the Spec, Eval, and Context setup used to build Leaders Metrics.