# How I work
Source: https://manaienko.com/how-i-work/
Author: Artem Manaienko

# How I actually _work._

A CV says where I was. These pages say what I do when the situation repeats. Operating rules first, then the specific occasions that produced them, including the ones that went badly. Pick whichever one matches what you are hiring for.

Show[Everything10](#everything)[People02](#people)[Delivery04](#delivery)[Economics01](#economics)[Platform01](#platform)[Applied AI02](#ai)

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## People and leadership

-   [01 ↗Leadership selection · Succession · People leadership**How I select and grow technical leaders** The strongest specialist is rarely the obvious answer. Give a candidate a real team and a real feature, stay out of it, and watch whether the work gets delegated or absorbed.](https://manaienko.com/how-i-work/selecting-technical-leaders/)
-   [02 ↗People development · Coaching · Autonomy**How I develop engineers** Growth is scope absorbed. For about four years I had no titles to give at all, so I hand out ambiguity on purpose and make ownership the thing you earn.](https://manaienko.com/how-i-work/developing-engineers/)

## Product and delivery

-   [03 ↗Prioritisation · Product and engineering · Capacity**How I turn business priorities into a backlog** The order is a judgment, not a scoring formula. Business outcome, cost of delay, the smallest useful change, then the capacity that actually exists. Architecture enters when it changes one of those.](https://manaienko.com/how-i-work/business-priorities-into-a-backlog/)
-   [04 ↗Delivery · Operating models · Change**How I change delivery when scope stops being honest** A date that keeps moving is a decision nobody made. One primary capability defines a release, a material scope change forces re-estimation, and the trade-off gets picked in the open by the people who own it.](https://manaienko.com/how-i-work/delivery-when-scope-stops-being-honest/)
-   [05 ↗Engineering leadership · Operating models · Change**How I communicate a decision people will not like** Open the problem before the decision closes. Argue the options in the open. Then follow up privately with the people who will not disagree in a room.](https://manaienko.com/how-i-work/decisions-people-dislike/)
-   [06 ↗Engineering effectiveness · Delivery · Operating models**How I measure engineering effectiveness** The cost of a change is rarely inside its ticket. Find where the loop actually waits, measure that, and take the baseline before you change anything, because a figure reconstructed afterwards is the weaker one.](https://manaienko.com/how-i-work/measuring-engineering-effectiveness/)

## Technical economics

-   [07 ↗Technical economics · Executive communication · Forecasting**How I report results, including the misses** A number carries its scope and its status. A missed forecast gets reported as a miss. A claim I can no longer source gets retired, not rounded.](https://manaienko.com/how-i-work/reporting-results/)

## Platform and architecture

-   [08 ↗Application platform · Design systems · Cross-team delivery**How I run a platform other teams depend on** One contract, implemented per platform. Migration enforced by a governance rule instead of a campaign. And a backlog cut down to the capacity that actually exists.](https://manaienko.com/how-i-work/platforms-other-teams-depend-on/)

## Applied AI

-   [09 ↗AI-enabled engineering · Developer experience · Adoption**How I put AI into a delivery system** The useful unit is a workspace, not a prompt. Curated context, task-specific workflows, and a human gate everywhere a wrong change would actually cost something.](https://manaienko.com/how-i-work/ai-in-the-delivery-system/)
-   [10 ↗AI-enabled engineering · Delivery · Quality**AI across the SDLC** The industry moved from prompting to context and harness engineering. Here is what that means stage by stage, what I would build first, and where I think the evidence stops.](https://manaienko.com/how-i-work/ai-sdlc/)