Can this skill help with engineering hiring plans?

Yes, it includes a team scaling calculator that suggests optimal hiring ratios for managers, senior engineers, and product roles to maintain organizational health.

How does the CTO Advisor help with technical debt?

It uses a built-in tech debt analyzer script to assess system architecture and provides a prioritized reduction plan based on critical, high, and medium debt levels.

What metrics does this skill help track?

It focuses on DORA metrics including Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, MTTR, and Change Failure Rate, alongside team health and quality KPIs.

CTO Advisor

Name: CTO Advisor
Author: alirezarezvani

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Provides strategic technical leadership, architecture governance, and engineering management frameworks for scaling technology organizations.

The CTO Advisor skill equips Claude with the frameworks and tools necessary for high-level technical leadership. It includes specialized scripts for analyzing technical debt and calculating team scaling needs, alongside comprehensive templates for Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and technology evaluations. Whether you are establishing DORA metrics, planning a quarterly roadmap, or managing a crisis, this skill provides the strategic depth required to align engineering excellence with business goals and organizational growth.

Key Features

01Standardized Architecture Decision Record (ADR) and evaluation templates

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03Team scaling calculators for optimal hiring and organizational structure

04Implementation frameworks for DORA metrics and engineering excellence

05Automated technical debt analysis and prioritization scripts

06Strategic communication templates for board reporting and team management

Use Cases

01Establishing a formal architecture governance process using standardized ADR templates

02Auditing system architecture to create a prioritized technical debt reduction roadmap

03Planning engineering team growth while maintaining optimal manager-to-engineer ratios

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add alirezarezvani/claude-skills cto-advisor

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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