AI Enablement Engagement

Session 6 — Speed vs. Risk: Capstone & Best Practices

Phase: 2 — Enablement & Integration Target Week: Week 5 Duration: 2 hours Format: Capstone exercise plus best-practices discussion Audience: Turner development team, technical leadership (recommended)

Note. The capstone is the pilot's first vertical slice — a real end-to-end feature, however small — taken from refinement through PR using the toolchain assembled in Sessions 3-5. If no slice is ready, the fallback is scaffolding the project skeleton end-to-end with AI assistance. Either way, the pilot leaves the engagement with real working code and AI workflows baked in.

Objective

Operationalize the velocity-vs-quality discussion on the pilot product: developers take the pilot's first vertical slice end-to-end with AI assistance under Turner's governance framework, then close the engagement with a synthesis of what's working and a plan for applying the same pattern to other new products.

By the end of this session, the pilot product has its first working vertical slice shipped with AI-assisted development practices baked in — CLAUDE.md and skills in the repo, AI-augmented pipeline running, real code completed against the new toolchain. The team now has a complete worked example to replicate on any future product.

Key Topics

  • Velocity-vs-quality patterns: shipping fast without compounding technical debt
  • Security guardrails in AI-assisted workflows: secret hygiene, dependency vetting, supply-chain awareness
  • Code review etiquette when AI is in the loop — human and AI reviewers complementing each other
  • Capstone exercise: build the pilot product's first vertical slice (or scaffold the project skeleton) end-to-end using the full toolchain (CLAUDE.md, skills, pipeline integration)
  • Retrospective: what worked, what was friction, where Phase 3 support should focus
  • Hand-off of the finalized Developer Reference Guide
  • Forward-looking roadmap: which products Turner should wrap next, in what order, using the pilot product as the template

Outcomes

  • The pilot product's first vertical slice (or project skeleton) shipped during the session with full AI-assisted workflow
  • Finalized Developer Reference Guide ready for hand-off
  • Pr