Session 6 — Speed vs. Risk: Capstone & Best Practices (Detailed Agenda)

Total Duration: 2.5 hours (150 minutes) Phase / Week: Phase 2, Week 5 Format: Capstone exercise plus closing best-practices discussion Required attendees: Turner developers; technical leadership present for the closing block

Pre-session prep (Turner)

  • Select a real backlog item from the learning bed, sized for a working-session pace, that exercises the full toolchain (CLAUDE.md, custom skill, pipeline integration from Session 5)
  • Confirm technical leadership availability for the closing retrospective

Agenda

0:00 – 0:10 (10 min) — Frame the capstone

  • Lead: Nubitz
  • Format: Briefing
  • Restate the engagement arc. Set up the capstone: take a real backlog item from the learning bed product from refinement through PR using everything built in Sessions 3-5. Note that by end of session, the learning bed is fully wrapped — and the team's job in Phase 3 and beyond is to replicate the pattern across the rest of the portfolio.

0:10 – 0:35 (25 min) — Capstone phase 1: refinement and planning

  • Lead: Developers; Nubitz observing and coaching
  • Format: Hands-on
  • Use AI to refine the story, write acceptance criteria, and outline an approach. Confirm the approach with peers before coding.

0:35 – 1:20 (45 min) — Capstone phase 2: implementation

  • Lead: Developers; Nubitz observing and coaching
  • Format: Hands-on
  • Implement against the plan using AI assistance. Apply the CLAUDE.md/skills from Session 4. Lean on the patterns from Session 3. When friction appears, surface it for the retrospective.

1:20 – 1:30 (10 min) — Break

1:30 – 1:55 (25 min) — Capstone phase 3: PR, automated checks, and review

  • Lead: Developers; Nubitz observing
  • Format: Hands-on
  • Open the PR. Watch the AI-augmented pipeline steps from Session 5 run. Compare AI's review with developer judgment. Iterate as needed.

1:55 – 2:15 (20 min) — Velocity-vs-quality patterns and security guardrails

  • Lead: Nubitz
  • Format: Briefing + discussion
  • Synthesize the speed-vs-risk patterns observed across the capstone. Discuss secret hygiene, dependency vetting, supply-chain awareness, and code-review etiquette with AI in the loop.

2:15 – 2:30 (15 min) — Retrospective, hand-off, and Phase 3 setup

  • Lead: Nubitz with Turner leadership
  • Format: Synthesis
  • What worked. What was friction. Where should Phase 3 support focus. Hand off the finalized Developer Reference Guide. Confirm Phase 3 logistics (booking the 10 hours of white-glove time).

Materials

  • Finalized Developer Reference Guide (delivered at this session)
  • Phase 3 booking template / shared scheduling link
  • One-page portfolio-rollout plan (which Turner products to wrap next, using the learning bed pattern)

What Nubitz produces after this session

  • Final Developer Reference Guide hand-off
  • A real learning bed backlog item shipped (or PR-ready) during the session
  • Phase 3 support topic backlog
  • Phase 2 invoice trigger
  • Final engagement summary one-pager

Risks to manage

  • Wrong-sized backlog item: scope it carefully in advance. Too big and the capstone stalls; too small and the toolchain isn'