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Mastering Elite Engineering Workflows

Last updated: 2025-08-22

Executive Summary

This playbook provides a production-ready framework to architect, implement, and scale elite engineering practices on GitHub. It distills proven patterns for code review, CI/CD automation, governance, repository structure, and metrics/DevEx into an actionable toolkit with runnable examples and automated documentation publishing.

Audience

  • Engineering leaders and architects who define standards and governance
  • Staff/principal engineers who design CI/CD and tooling
  • Senior engineers who drive day-to-day code quality and delivery

How to Adopt in 30 Minutes

  1. Fork or clone this repo and enable GitHub Actions.
  2. Copy the .github/ workflows and templates to your repositories.
  3. Customize CODEOWNERS and branch protection rules to match your team.
  4. Review CONTRIBUTING.md to align review tiers, SLAs, and checklists.
  5. Build the docs site locally: pip install -r docs/requirements.txt && mkdocs build.
  6. Publish via GitHub Pages using the provided workflow.

What’s Inside

  • Code Review & Collaboration best practices
  • GitHub Actions CI/CD patterns and deployment examples
  • Governance and security guardrails (CODEOWNERS, branch protection)
  • Repository structure guidance for scale
  • Metrics and Developer Experience (DORA + surveys)

Use the left navigation to explore each area in depth.