Engineering Judgement Workshop

Practice making better technical decisions under ambiguity

Learn a repeatable framework for clarifying requirements, surfacing assumptions, evaluating trade-offs, and validating outcomes in real-world engineering work.

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Prerequisites

• Working JavaScript and TypeScript experience
• Basic experience with React-style full stack web applications
• Familiarity with using AI coding assistants (or willingness to learn as you go)
• Comfort discussing trade-offs and documenting assumptions

Pre-workshop Resources

Here are some resources you can read before taking the workshop to get you up to speed on some of the tools and concepts we'll be covering:

• How to Think Like an Engineer
• Epic Web Getting Started Guide
• The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter

System Requirements

• git v2.18 or greater
• NodeJS v18 or greater
• npm v8 or greater

All of these must be available in your PATH. To verify things are set up properly, you can run this:

git --version
node --version
npm --version

If you have trouble with any of these, learn more about the PATH environment variable and how to fix it here for windows or mac/linux.

Setup

Use the Epic Workshop CLI to get this setup:

npx --yes epicshop@latest add engineering-judgement

If you experience errors here, please open an issue with as many details as you can offer.

The Workshop App

Learn all about the workshop app on the Epic Web Getting Started Guide.

Make sure to complete the Epic Workshop app Tutorial:

npx --yes epicshop@latest add epicshop-tutorial