A production-grade operating model for building, scaling, and leading high-performance iOS teams.
This repository documents how to design engineering systems — not just write features.
Most repositories demonstrate how to build features.
Few demonstrate how to:
- Scale engineering teams
- Govern architecture decisions
- Prevent production incidents
- Reduce technical entropy
- Build resilient delivery systems
This repository captures the operating system behind strong iOS teams.
- Architecture Decision Records (ADR)
- Modularization strategy
- Concurrency model standards
- Architecture review framework
- Definition of Done
- Code review guidelines
- Branching & governance model
- Release & hotfix strategy
- Incident response playbook
- Engineering metrics deep dive
- Observability standards
- Technical debt management framework
- Staff Engineer Playbook
- Mentorship framework
- Team operating model
- Growth ladder foundations
- Senior iOS Engineers
- Staff / Principal Engineers
- Engineering Managers
- Founding engineers scaling teams
- Teams transitioning from startup chaos to structured delivery
Engineering maturity is not measured by:
- Lines of code
- Velocity
- Feature count
It is measured by:
- Decision clarity
- Production stability
- Observability
- Recovery speed
- Organizational resilience
architecture/ adr/ architecture-review-framework.md
process/ release-strategy.md incident-response-playbook.md engineering-metrics-deep-dive.md technical-debt-management-framework.md
career/ mentorship-framework.md staff-engineer-playbook.md team-operating-model.md
This is a living playbook.
Adopt:
- One framework at a time
- Adapt to your team size
- Document decisions via ADRs
Do not copy blindly. Understand trade-offs.
- Example Architecture Review templates
- Production postmortem examples
- Scaling case studies
- Governance checklist templates
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2026 Gökhan Taymaz
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction...