Primary-Owner playbook for shepherding a Technical Strategy Idea (TSI) through Architecture's pre-funnel evaluation. Spans filing the ARCH idea, pairing with a peer reviewer, completing the Stakeholder & Engagement Map (with Known Friction Points), presenting at Architecture Council, navigating quarterly prioritization, and running the Adoption Retrospective at Implementation handoff. Time horizon: driven by the quarterly review cadence, not a fixed clock.

For the Peer Reviewer / portfolio-curator side use Skill(curating-the-strategy-ideas-backlog); for the team-tech-lead-as-contributor framing (filing well, driving passes to a Staff+ owner) use Skill(contributing-to-technical-strategy) in bitwarden-tech-lead.

The Shepherding Model

Per the TSI page, every idea in active status has two Architecture-side roles assigned:

Primary Owner. Drives the idea through the pipeline. Writes the problem statement, conducts research, presents at Architecture Council, shepherds the transition to the funnel. Accountable for progress. This is you when invoking this skill.
Peer Reviewer. A second Architecture engineer who acts as a sounding board, stays informed on the idea's progress, and provides a constructive challenge function. Not a co-owner — their job is asking the hard questions, catching cross-initiative conflicts, and ensuring stakeholder engagement is thorough.

The pairing matters. The TSI page is explicit: "No single engineer should carry more than two active reviewer assignments at a time, primary or peer." If you are taking on a Primary Owner role and already have two active assignments, surface that — overloaded review defeats its purpose and stalls ideas you've nominally taken on but can't actually drive.

The Arc: From Thesis to Funnel Intake

Roughly:

championing-a-strategy-idea

The Shepherding Model

The Arc: From Thesis to Funnel Intake