References — Programme Design

Source specifications (this repository)

• frontend-principal-engineering.md — the authoritative curriculum specification
• browser-framework-internals.md — the sibling depth track
• README.md — track overview and intended agent usage

Engineering ladders and level definitions

• Dropbox Engineering Career Framework
• CircleCI Engineering Competency Matrix
• Rent the Runway Engineering Ladder
• Will Larson, StaffEng — staffeng.com — Staff archetypes and scope
• Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path (O'Reilly, 2022)

Technical decision-making and architecture records

• Michael Nygard, Documenting Architecture Decisions
• adr.github.io — ADR templates and tooling
• Jeff Bezos, 1997 & 2015 shareholder letters — one-way vs two-way doors

Learning method

• Ericsson & Pool, Peak — deliberate practice; why prediction-before-verification works
• Bjork & Bjork, Making Things Hard on Yourself, But in a Good Way — desirable difficulties
• Hattie & Timperley, The Power of Feedback (Review of Educational Research, 2007)

Organisational topology (Phase 6–7 grounding)

• Skelton & Pais, Team Topologies (IT Revolution, 2019)
• Conway, How Do Committees Invent? (Datamation, 1968) — the original Conway's Law paper