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Fractional Engineering Leadership. @fractional-engineering-leadership
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Provider Scrums.com
Last review 2026-08-13
What you get
the numbers that matter≈ 2 weeks
signed to first PR
96%
engagements renewed
96%
to your stack & domain
Part-time CTO or engineering-management leadership as a subscription: architecture and stack decisions, team and hiring support, and board-ready reporting — from leaders who have built production systems.
How this operator works
every way of working, already decidedOwns the system, not the ticket
Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.
Embedded, async-first, instrumented
Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.
Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys
Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.
Plugged into your Slack & rituals
Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.
Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours
Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.
Scoped, gated, reversible
Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.
Overview
Not every company needs a full-time CTO — but every company shipping software needs the decisions one makes. Fractional Engineering Leadership puts a senior engineering leader into your business on a part-time subscription: owning architecture direction, technology stack choices, engineering process, and the hiring bar, at a defined weekly cadence.
This is implementation-backed advisory — leaders who have built and operated the systems they recommend, with objective, no-vendor-bias guidance across cloud strategy, AI adoption, and engineering maturity. And because it runs inside the Scrums.com platform, advice connects directly to execution capacity when you need it.
What's included
Fractional CTO/EM Time
A named senior leader at a fixed weekly cadence — leading architecture reviews, planning, and the decisions that shouldn't wait for a hire.
Architecture & Stack Decisions
Objective technology evaluation against your requirements — frameworks, cloud services, build-vs-buy — with the reasoning documented.
Team & Hiring Support
Org design, role definitions, technical interviewing, and mentoring for your existing engineers and leads.
Board-Ready Reporting
Engineering status, risk, and roadmap translated for boards and investors — grounded in delivery data, not vibes.
How it works
- Embed — Discovery and stakeholder alignment: current-state review, priorities, and a working cadence with founders and leads.
- Ship weekly — Standing leadership rhythm: architecture and roadmap decisions, team development, and reporting, week over week.
- Scale — Involvement flexes with the company — heavier through fundraises, replatforms, or key hires — and hands over cleanly to a full-time leader when the time comes.
Part of every Delivery Plan
Fractional Engineering Leadership is a menu item on the Scrums.com delivery catalog, available at every plan tier. Add it to your plan backlog and your delivery team schedules it like any other item — scoped, tracked, and reported through the SEOP. See Delivery Plan Tiers.
FAQs
How much time do we actually get?
A fixed weekly cadence agreed at kickoff — typically one to two days a week — with the shape (architecture reviews, leadership meetings, hiring loops) set by what the business needs most.
Why this instead of hiring a full-time CTO?
Sequencing. A fractional leader gives you the decisions now, helps define what the full-time role should be, and can run the search for their own successor — a cleaner path than betting an early equity grant on the first plausible candidate.
What happens when advice needs execution?
That's the advantage of leadership inside a delivery platform: agreed roadmap items can be scheduled straight onto your plan backlog — a sprint, a pod, an SLA — with the same leader accountable for the outcome.
What's included
in every engagement · no add-onsTrack record
deployments on real systems · anonymized| Sector | System | Outcome | Span | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fintech | payments-core ledger | 99.97% achieved | 14 mo | ● complete |
| Commerce | checkout platform | −38% incident rate | 9 mo | ● complete |
| Health SaaS | data plane | 0 SEV1 in 6 mo | 11 mo | ● active |
| Logistics | routing engine | zero-downtime cutover | 7 mo | ● complete |
| AI infra | inference cluster | p99 −120 ms | 5 mo | ● active |
Works inside your stack
surfaces this operator binds to| Surface | Binding | Direction | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source control | github.com/<org> | reviews + writes | OIDC |
| CI / CD | scm-flow · deploy-service | gates deploys | OIDC |
| Observability | otlp://collector:4317 | metrics + alerts | mTLS |
| Comms | slack://<workspace> | standups, incidents | SSO |
| Secrets | vault://scrums/op/<id> | short-lived creds | SPIFFE |
| On-call | pagerduty://<org> | primary / secondary | API token |
Boundaries
what to deploy insteadScoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →
Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.
Deployments
the only social proof we publish402deploys
across 38 organizations
+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%
Pricing
one number · one footnoteAvailable at all Delivery Plan Tiers →
All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.
Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.
FAQ
common questionsHow is Fractional Engineering Leadership priced?
Pricing is shown to signed-in accounts. Sign in to view the rate; pricing is computed from your engagement scope, region and account tier.
Is Fractional Engineering Leadership available now?
Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.
Can a Fractional Engineering Leadership deployment be reversed?
Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.
Who provides Fractional Engineering Leadership?
Scrums.com, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.
How it compares
vs other delivery| Option | From | Stack | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fractional Engineering Leadership · this one | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · pods · cto | ● available |
| Codebase Quality Audit | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · code-audit · maintenance | ● available |
| Product Discovery Sprint | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · discovery · workshop | ● available |
| Clickable Product Prototype | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · prototyping · design | ● available |
Commonly deployed with
more deliveryRun this scope on your Delivery Plan
Core costs Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000/month for one active workstream. Your scope sets the delivery schedule and the total cost. You can use the same plan for your other development work.
Add this scope to your backlog. Your delivery owner confirms the scope with you, and the team delivers it.
One plan for your software backlog.
Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity.