Engineering conversation practice
Train engineering leads and architects to present complex designs, align team priorities, and handle technical debt negotiations.
Sourav Bose
Systems Architect
API Deprecation Security Alignment
- Detail safe legacy API fallback paths and isolation strategies
- Agree on automated unit check gates before deprecation release
- Confirm microservice rollout timelines and consensus checkpoints
- Architecture Framing
- Technical Debt Articulation
- Code Review Communication
- Incident Postmortem Facilitation
- Cross-Team API Negotiation
Scenario catalog
Technical debt negotiation
Convince a product manager to dedicate a sprint to refactoring core infrastructure.
Skills scored
Explaining tech debt in business terms
Architecture debate
Align two senior engineers who disagree on a software architecture design.
Skills scored
Mediating the disagreement & reaching a decision
Cross-team resource scoping
Negotiate engineering resources with a peer manager for a shared service.
Skills scored
Balancing resources & agreeing on milestones
What Dehurdle measures
Technical value positioning
Grade engineers on explaining complex technical decisions in terms of business outcomes.
Constructive peer alignment
Evaluate how you mediate design disagreements.
Accurate scoping trade-offs
Check how you weigh technical debt against new features.