Part XII — Engineering Leadership & Career Growth

Part XII develops the ability to make Quality Engineering count inside an organisation.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 — Engineering Leadership as Quality Engineering

   150 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Parts I and XI; Parts III and X recommended

2. Chapter 2 — Communicating Quality Evidence to Decision Owners

   150 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapter 1; Parts III, X, and XI recommended

3. Chapter 3 — Written Records, Technical Writing, and Organisational Memory

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   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–2; Part XI decision-record material

4. Chapter 4 — Disagreement, Escalation, and Recording an Unheeded Concern

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   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–3

5. Chapter 5 — Decision Rights, Ownership Models, Governance Operating Models, and Accountability

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   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–4; Parts VI, VIII, IX, X, and XI recommended

6. Chapter 6 — Quality Culture: Claims, Evidence, and Limits

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   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–5; Part VIII incident-learning concepts recommended

7. Chapter 7 — Organisation Structure and Its Quality Consequences

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   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–6; Part XI Chapter 2 boundary vocabulary; Part XI Chapters 10–11 for the deferred ownership transfer

8. Chapter 8 — Mentoring and Growing Quality Reasoning in Others

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   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–7

9. Chapter 9 — Measuring Engineering and Quality Practice

   180 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–8; Part I Chapter 7 for the Goodhart treatment; Part XI Chapter 9 for fitness functions and the measure-becomes-target risk

10. Chapter 10 — Changing Practice: Adoption, Evidence, and Reversibility

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    Prerequisites: Chapters 1–9; Part XI Chapter 10 reversibility treatment

11. Chapter 11 — Career Growth as an Evidence-Led Practice

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    Prerequisites: Chapters 1–10

12. Chapter 12 — Capstone: Quality Leadership and Career Strategy Portfolio

    300 minutes, plus the capstone exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

    Prerequisites: Chapters 1–11; Parts I–XI