A handbook or a guide if you will, that can be used as a tool to establish good engineering foundation.

1. People

1.1 Hiring and Recruitment

1.1.1 Strategy

1.1.2 Roles

1.1.3 Interviewing and Selection Process

1.2 Team/s Structure and Design

1.3 Individual Performance Management

1.3.1 One-on-One Meetings

1.3.1 Engineering Competency Matrix

1.3.2 Performance Evaluation

1.3.3 Performance Tracking

1.3.4 Coaching and Mentoring

1.3.5 Career Planning

1.3.6 Performance Improvement Plan

1.4 Team Operations and Performance

1.4.1 Values

1.4.2 Traditions

1.4.1 Product Strategy Alignment

1.4.2 KPIS

1.4.2.1 Velocity Tracking

1.4.2.2 Quality Metrics

1.4.2.3 Health Metrics

1.4 Culture and Excellence

1.4.1 Knowledge Sharing

1.4.2 Innovation

1.4.3 Learning

1.4.4 Technical and Operational Excellence

1.4.5 No-blame Mindset

2. Project Management

2.1 Technical Leadership

2.1.1 Technical Strategy

2.1.1.1 Roadmap

2.1.1.2 Architectural Decisions

2.1.1.3 In-house vs Off-the-shelve

2.2 Quality and Processes

2.2.1 Technical Excellence

2.2.1.1 Architecture and Design Principles

2.2.1.2 Coding Standards

2.2.1.3 CI/CD Deployment Strategy

2.2.1.4 Observability & Performance Monitoring

2.2.1.5 Security

2.2.2 Operational Excellence

2.2.2.1 Standardised SDLC

2.2.2.2 Incident Management

2.2.2.3 Automation

2.2.2.4 Security

2.2.2.5 Operational KPIS

2.2 Project Planning

2.2.1 Resource Allocation

2.2.2 Release Management

2.2.3 Risk Management

2.2.4 Dependency Management

2.3 Execution

2.3.1 Development Methodology

2.3.2 Project Tracking

2.3.3 Milestone Management

2.3.4 Scope Management

2.3.5 Timeline Estimation

2.4 Communication

2.4.1 Stakeholder Management

2.4.1 Cross-functional Collaboration

2.5.1 Reporting

3. Company

3.1 Culture

3.2 Structure

3.3 Cross department collaboration