# A Guide to Running an Engineering Program

DevFeed: [A Guide to Running an Engineering Program](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-guide-to-running-an-engineering-program-1561.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/running-engineering-program-guide>)

Author: Carla Wright

Published: 2021-07-21T20:00:01Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/complexity.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [organizational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizational.md>), [scalable-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalable-architecture.md>), [scope](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scope.md>), [team](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team.md>), [teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teams.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify shares a playbook for running large engineering programs across a complex, rapidly evolving platform. The guide emphasizes a clearly defined outcome, stakeholder alignment, documented planning, and structured leadership through program stakeholders and program leads.

## Source excerpt

Shopify has a playbook for huge engineering programs in the past that cross over multiple areas of complexity on the platform, and we'd like to share it with you.